STAND. COM. REP. NO. 748

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 Ways and Means, 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 the implementation of energy efficiency retrofitting through performance contracting.

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

     Your Committee finds that this measure will end an unnecessary requirement to automatically increase a state agency's energy budget without regard to need.

     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. 101 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair