Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3170, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to adopt strict requirements for the sale of gasoline containing ethanol.

Your Committee notes that existing law presently requires the petroleum commission to adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the sale of gasoline containing ten per cent ethanol by volume. This measure expressly requires that, by January 1, 2006, eighty-five per cent of all gasoline sold in the State shall contain ten per cent ethanol by volume.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 3170, S.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.