CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. 16

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 10

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

C.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 10, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this bill is to increase consumer awareness of retail electricity services and the fuel choices made by the electric utilities operating in the State by requiring that each retail supplier of electricity annually disclose to its existing and new retail electric customers information regarding fuel mix and average retail price.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying in the purpose section that electric utilities must disclose information regarding average retail price as well as fuel mix;

(2) Specifying that the formula for determining the average retail price of electricity shall be calculated for each rate class of service;

(3) Amending the definition of "fuel mix" to mean the electricity sold to retail electricity customers expressed in terms of percentage contribution by generation category; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 10, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 10, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair		____________________________ HERMINA M. MORITA, Co-Chair
____________________________ RON MENOR, Co-Chair		____________________________ KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Co-Chair
____________________________ GARY L. HOOSER, Co-Chair