STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2422

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2669

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2669 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to codify the State's commitment to conservation and sustainability by including goal eight, decent work and economic growth, of the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and indicators, with references to existing state sustainability programs, if applicable, in the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture, Department of Health, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Planning, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 1260, Airport Concessionaries Committee, and Oahu Economic Development Board.

Your Committees find that Hawai‘i has been a leader in conservation efforts for decades, through its commitment to environmental and sustainability policies, and that a priority of the Senate for the Regular Session of 2018 is to adopt the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals at the state level. The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. This measure codifies Sustainable Development Goal eight, decent work and economic growth, into state law.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Codifying Sustainable Development Goal eight into chapter 226, Hawaii Revised Statutes, instead of chapter 344, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

(2) Inserting language to additionally codify the State of Hawaii's 2050 Sustainability Plan goals, which were established in 2008 to express the sustainable future of Hawaii; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2669, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2669, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology and Labor,

________________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair