STAND. COM. REP. NO.  995

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1039

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 1039 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make the Public Utilities Commission's process of reporting more efficient.

 

     More specifically, this measure consolidates the Public Utilities Commission special fund report, which is currently required to be submitted annually prior to the convening of each Regular Session of the Legislature, within the Commission's single annual report filing made pursuant to section 269-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which is submitted on a fiscal year basis.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Public Utilities Commission.

 

Your Committee finds that this measure simplifies the Public Utilities Commission's reporting process by allowing the Commission to submit one annual report to the Legislature that would include all of the Commission's pertinent and relevant finances and functions for the fiscal year.  This would enable the Commission to present the required information in one comprehensive publication and reduce the unnecessary use of resources to create multiple, related reports.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1039 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair