STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2826

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3086

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3086 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to support high technology development by requiring the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to partner with the United States Department of Energy to establish an Office of Science National Laboratory in the Kalaeloa Community Development District.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Hawaii Community Development Authority.

Your Committee finds that establishing an Office of Science National Laboratory in Hawaii will support Hawaii's goal of achieving one hundred percent renewable energy use for the entire State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical nonsubstantive change for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 3086, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3086, S.D. 1.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair