STAND. COM. REP. NO. 138

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1436

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1436 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to reconvene the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum.

Your Committee finds that reconvening the forum is necessary to develop an action plan and timeline to implement the vision, concepts, and recommendations of the forum's final report, from its December 2003 summit, which sets forth recommended guiding principles and policy options to meet Hawaii's long term energy needs.

Your Committee further finds that the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism has been very supportive of the State's commitment toward an energy future based on policies that favor environmentally friendly, renewable, safe, reliable, and affordable energy resources.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the expending agency from the University of Hawaii to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1436, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1436, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

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HERMINA MORITA, Chair