STAND. COM. REP. NO.  589-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2670

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2670 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a two-year pilot program using the negotiated partner approach to execute energy savings performance contracts.

Honeywell testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Accounting and General Services opposed this measure.  Life of the Land provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifying a minimum of three vendors on the list of qualified vendors that a state agency is allowed to negotiate with for a sole-source energy savings performance contract;

     (2)  Requiring the agencies to adopt rules for choosing vendors; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2670, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2670, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

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DENNY COFFMAN, Chair