STAND. COM. REP. NO. 794

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1066

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1066, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the number of Directors for the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority from eleven to thirteen.

     Specifically, this measure adds two tenant members to the Board of Directors.  These tenant member positions shall be filled by tenants of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority who have been elected by the tenants of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority.

     Your Committee finds that it is in the best interest of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority to have its tenants be represented on the Board of Directors.  The inclusion of two tenants on the governing board of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority gives the board the benefit of input from its tenants while ensuring that the tenant members are recused from voting on matters in their self-interest, such as setting lease rents, water rates, and utility rates.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of consistency and clarity.

     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 S.B. No. 1066, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1066, S.D. 2.

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

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair