STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1269

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 800

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 800, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM FROM THE ENERGY SECURITY SPECIAL FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate an unspecified amount from the Energy Security special fund for the program on environment and energy development to support the Hawaii Refinery Task Force.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to fund and support the activities of the Hawaii Refinery Task Force.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Inserting $145,000 as the amount of the appropriation; and

 

(2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 800, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 800, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair