STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2021-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2963

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2963, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require state facilities, with the exception of smaller facilities, to implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures;

(2) Direct the Hawaii State Energy Office to collect all state-owned facilities' utility bill and energy usage data and make this data publicly available;

(3) Provide that certain agencies that perform energy efficiency retrofitting may continue to receive a certain amount of budget appropriations for energy expenditures; and

(4) Beginning July 1, 2023, require, where feasible and cost-effective, the design of all new state building construction to maximize energy and water efficiency and energy generation potential and use building materials that reduce the carbon footprint of the project.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Hawaii State Energy Office, Ulupono Initiative, Hawai‘i Energy, and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Transportation, Climate Protectors Hawai‘i, and 350Hawaii.org.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Removing the provision that certain agencies that perform energy efficiency retrofitting may continue to receive appropriations for energy expenditures;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2022; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2963, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2963, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair