STAND. COM. REP. NO.  320-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2631

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2631 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY INDUSTRY REPORTING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to facilitate effective energy planning by establishing the Energy Industry Monitoring and Analysis Program (Program) within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to collect energy data and information to achieve the State's energy policies, programs, and plans.  The Program would assume responsibilities for certain energy industry data collection currently required of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) under the Petroleum Industry Information Reporting Act (Reporting Act).

 

     The Department of Budget and Finance and the Western States Petroleum Association provided comments on this bill.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by replacing its entire contents with that of H.B. No. 2287.  As amended, this bill now repeals:

 

     (1)  Oil industry reports required to be filed with PUC under the Reporting Act; and

 

     (2)  PUC duties under the Reporting Act to analyze and publish annual summaries on the information from oil industry reports, including the PUC's Petroleum Industry Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Program.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2631, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2631, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary,

 

 

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JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair

 

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair