STAND. COM. REP. NO.  772

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1579

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1579, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote the use of clean, renewable energy sources by authorizing the issuance of special facility revenue bonds and appropriating funds to the High Technology Development Corporation for the purposes of constructing an electrolysis hydrogen production, storage, and dispensing facility to be managed by the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies.

 

     The Department of Transportation, High Technology Development Corporation, Blue Planet Foundation, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, and Hawaii Automobile Dealers' Association supported this measure.  Three individuals opposed this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General, We Are One, Inc., and one individual provided comments.

 

     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. 1579, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair