STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1003-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2512

      S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 2512, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to continue to provide oversight and analysis of the distribution of the environmental response, energy, and food security tax by extending the sunset date of the Hawaii Economic Development Task Force to June 30, 2014, and renaming it the Hawaii Food and Energy Security Council.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Farmers Union United, The Nature Conservancy, and an individual supported this measure.

     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 S.B. No. 2512, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

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

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DENNY COFFMAN, Chair