STAND. COM. REP. NO. 660-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2448

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Economic Development & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 2448, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INNOVATION BUSINESS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to codify the State's commitment to conservation and sustainability by including goal nine, relating to industry, innovation, and infrastructure, of the seventeen United Nations sustainable development goals and indicators, with references to existing state sustainability programs, if applicable, in the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

The Office of Planning, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and two individuals supported this measure. An individual opposed this measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Codifying the sustainable development goals in Chapter 226, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which is the Hawaii State Planning Act, to be consistent with the State's sustainability priority guidelines and principles; and

(2) Changing its effective date to January 28, 2045, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Economic Development & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2448, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2448, H.D. 2, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Economic Development & Business,

____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair

____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair