STAND. COM. REP. NO. 733-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2467
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2467 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CONSUMER ADVOCATE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1)  Enable the Division of Consumer Advocacy to employ or
          retain its own attorneys without regard to chapters 76
          and 77, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and 

     (2)  Appropriate funds from the Public Utilities Commission
          Special Fund to hire two staff attorneys.

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Public
Utilities Commission, GTE, Kauai Electric, the Gas Company,
Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., and its subsidiaries, Hawaiian
Electric Light Company and Maui Electric Company, Ltd., supported
this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical,
nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2467, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2467, H.D. 1.

 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair