STAND. COM. REP. NO. 995

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 811

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 811, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Improve the ease and efficiency of Energy Industry Information Reporting Act processes for reporting entities by combining all information and registration gathering functions within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and

 

     (2)  Clarify the enforcement and investigatory powers of the Public Utilities Commission following the consolidation of information gathering and registration functions within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Public Utilities Commission.

 

     Your Committees find that the Public Utilities Commission presently administers the registration and information gathering requirements of the Energy Industry Information Reporting Act.  The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism also performs similar energy industry information gathering functions under other statutes and has a well-established database system.  In the interest of administrative efficiency, your Committees find it beneficial and necessary to transfer the registration and information gathering functions under the Energy Industry Information Reporting Act to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.  Additionally, in light of the transfer of information gathering responsibilities proposed by this measure, your Committees find that the attendant enforcement duties should be referred to the Attorney General.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2013.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 811, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 811, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing,

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair