STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1474

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 869

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 869, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A STUDY ON ENERGY EFFICIENT TRANSPORTATION STRATEGIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii for a study on energy efficient transportation strategies.

     Your Committee received comments in support of the measure from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, College of Social Sciences Hawaii Energy Policy Forum.  Comments in support of the measure, with reservations, were received from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum is a part of the Social Sciences Public Policy Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  The policy forum proposes to conduct a study on energy efficient transportation strategies in conjunction with the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.  Your Committee finds that the study is needed because no energy efficient transportation strategy is currently in place for the transportation sector.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation figure to an unspecified amount in order to facilitate further discussion of the measure.  Your Committee has also made 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 H.B. No. 869, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 869, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair