SB1424

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1424
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. This Act is recommended by the governor for immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of article VII of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

SECTION 2. The purpose of this Act is to provide emergency appropriations for the division of consumer advocacy, department of commerce and consumer affairs, to investigate the power outages that occurred on October 15, 2006, on the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii.

The legislature finds and declares that the appropriations under this Act are in the public interest and are necessary for the protection of the consumers of electric services in the State.

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the public utilities commission special fund the sum of $250,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, to be deposited to the compliance resolution fund, to investigate the power outages that occurred on October 15, 2006 on the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the public utilities commission for the purposes of this section.

SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the compliance resolution fund the sum of $250,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007, to investigate the power outages that occurred on October 15, 2006, on the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of commerce and consumer affairs for the purposes of this section.

SECTION 5. The division of consumer advocacy shall submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days before the start of the 2008 legislative session providing:

(1) The date of each expenditure;

(2) Identification of any recipient of payments for each expenditure; and

(3) The scope of the consultant contract for which each expenditure was provided.

SECTION 6. Any provision of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, the appropriations authorized under this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year for which the appropriation was made. All unexpended and unencumbered balances of the appropriations made in this Act as of the close of business on June 30, 2008, shall lapse.

SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST