STAND. COM. REP. NO.  264-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1950

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1950 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SEAWATER AIR CONDITIONING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to help reduce the State's dependency on foreign oil by allowing seawater air conditioning district cooling systems to benefit from the State's Enterprise Zones Program.

Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning, LLC and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and an individual provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by amending its purpose section to reflect that this measure benefits the entire State.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1950, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1950, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair