STAND. COM. REP. NO. 763

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1042

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1042, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to update codified position descriptions for Public Utilities Commission staff and to authorize the Chairperson of the Public Utilities Commission to appoint and dismiss a chief administrator, attorneys, and other staff, as provided by law.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Public Utilities Commission and Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

Your Committee finds that the increased demand for energy and technological advancements in generating renewable energy, as well as changes in the delivery of other public utilities, requires the Public Utilities Commission to have a modernized and sophisticated workforce to carry out its increasingly complex regulatory functions.  This measure will allow the Chairperson the flexibility to identify, design, and fill the positions necessary to steward the State through these dynamic and challenging technology-driven times.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1042, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1042, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair