STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2437

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2563

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2563 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the energy efficiency goal by adding the attainment of a statewide alternate fuel standard of thirty per cent by 2030, thus expanding the current goals for 2010, 2015, and 2020.

     Your Committee finds that achieving a higher alternate fuel standard is important to the overall goal of state energy efficiency.

     Your Committee amended this measure by changing the effective date of this measure to July 1, 2055, to facilitate further discussion, and by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of 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 S.B. No. 2563, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2563, S.D. 1.

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

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair