STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1230-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3170, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PETROLEUM PRODUCTS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to promote alternative energy sources and protect the environment by:
(1) Establishing new requirements for the blending of ethanol in gasoline on an annual basis; and
(2) Requiring that, beginning on July 1, 2006, 85 percent of all gasoline sold for use in motor vehicles contain ten percent ethanol by volume.
The Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Worldwide Energy Group Inc., Maui Ethanol LLC, Clean Fuels Hawaii, Gay and Robinson Sugar Plantation, and numerous individuals testified in support of this bill. The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and ILWU, Local 142, supported the intent of this measure. The Western States Petroleum Association and Tesoro Hawaii testified in opposition to this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
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 S.B. No. 3170, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3170, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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