STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 471-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2863

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Economic Development & Business Concerns, to which was referred H.B. No. 2863 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATURAL ENERGY LABORATORY OF HAWAII AUTHORITY INNOVATION CORPORATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority Innovation Corporation (Corporation).

The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority supported this measure. The Office of Information Practices submitted comments regarding this measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the Corporation established by this measure is required to keep trade secrets and confidential business information confidential to the extent permitted by the Uniform Information Practices Act;

(2) Clarifying that the board of the Corporation may hold executive sessions for the sole purpose of discussing proprietary information; provided that the executive session shall be limited to discussion or consideration of trade secrets or confidential or proprietary commercial or financial information to the extent that the trade secrets or information fall within the exception to public disclosure under section 92F-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Economic Development & Business Concerns that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2863, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2863, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Economic Development & Business Concerns,

____________________________ JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair		____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair