STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1692-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2933

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2933, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce the use of clothes dryers which operate on electricity and encourage the use of clotheslines, which make use of sun and wind, two renewable resources, by:

(1)  Prohibiting contracts and other binding agreements from precluding the erecting and use of clotheslines on the premises of a single-family residential dwelling; and

(2)  Prohibiting rules on the placement of clotheslines from being unduly or unreasonably restrictive.

     Sierra Club - Hawaii Chapter supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Defining solar energy devices to include clotheslines;

(2)  Clarifying that the use of clotheslines do not qualify for the renewable energy technology tax credit;

(3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2933, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2933, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair