STAND. COM. REP. NO. 347

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 101

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 101 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to eliminate required increases to an agency's budget for energy expenditures in proportion to increases in the agency's overall budget during the term of a performance contract or project payment.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Accounting and General Services; and Department of Budget and Finance.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is a housekeeping measure to eliminate the requirement that an agency's energy budget rise in proportion to any increase in the agency's overall budget for the duration of an energy efficiency retrofitting performance contract or payment term.  Your Committee finds that providing energy budget increases to agencies without regard to need is unnecessary.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 101 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair