Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2179, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to encourage the evaluation and implementation of energy efficiency and renewable technologies in Hawaii.

To accomplish this, the bill adds a new part to Chapter 196, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and repeals current provisions that would be in conflict with the new part.

Your Committee finds that this bill is modeled after Presidential Executive Order 13123 and would help to ensure that state government leads by example in managing energy use. Your Committee has received reports that the program has been very effective at the federal level by advancing energy efficiency and water conservation, as well as improving utility management decisions at federal sites.

Your Committee has made several technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 2179, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2179, S.D. 2.