STAND. COM. REP. NO. 471

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1039

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 1039 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Public Utilities Commission to include its Public Utilities Commission special fund report as an update in its annual report to the Legislature required under section 269-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Public Utilities Commission.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will make the Public Utilities Commission's reporting process more efficient for future legislative sessions.  This measure permits all pertinent information regarding the Commission's finances and functions for a given fiscal year, including progress of the State's principal clean energy standards, to be contained and submitted within one comprehensive document.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1039 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair