STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1000-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 3211

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 3211, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CLOTHESLINES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce our dependence on electricity produced by fossil fuels by providing for an alternative to electric clothes dryers.  Specifically, this bill provides that no person shall be prevented from installing and using a clothesline to dry clothes on the premises of any single-family residential dwelling or townhouse that the person owns.

 

     The Sierra Club - Hawaii Chapter testified in support of this bill.  The Windward Ahupuaa Alliance and a concerned individual offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 


     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. 3211, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3211, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair