STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1306-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2933

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2933, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSEHOLD ENERGY DEMAND,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce our dependence on electricity produced by fossil fuels by providing an alternative to our reliance on electric clothes dryers.  This bill:

(1)  Allows the use of clotheslines by owners of privately-owned single-family residences; and

(2)  Provides restrictions on the location of clotheslines.

The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Conservation Council for Hawaii, Project Laundry List, Sierra Club - Hawaii Chapter, and an individual testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii Association of Realtors and an individual offered comments.

Your Committees have amended this bill by deleting its substance and inserting the substance of H.B. No. 3211, H.D. 1, which was reported out earlier by your Committee on Human Services & Housing.  Specifically, this bill was amended by, among other things:

(1)  Allowing clotheslines on privately-owned townhouses as well as single-family residences;

(2)  Deleting specific restrictions on the location of clotheslines;

(3)  Requiring that rules facilitating the placement of clotheslines shall not be unduly or unreasonably restrictive; and

(4)  Changing the effective date from July 1, 2050, to upon its approval.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Human Services & Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2933, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2933, S.D. 2, 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 Human Services & Housing,

____________________________ MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair

____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair