STAND. COM. REP. NO. 945

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1120

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1120, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Transportation to adopt rules governing a clean fuel standard for alternative fuels in the State.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization, Amazon, Biotechnology Innovation Organization, Clean Energy, Coalition Earth, Island Energy Services, Low Carbon Fuels Coalition, Neste, and one individual.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, Hawaiian Electric, and Par Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that the establishment in the State of a clean fuel standard aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions will incentivize the production and use of low-carbon fuels. Your Committee further finds that the development of clean transportation fuel technologies through a carefully designed program that reduces the carbon intensity of fuel use in the State presents a variety of benefits, including improved public and environmental health, employment opportunities, economic development, and a reduction in the lifecycle of greenhouse gas emissions.

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. 1120, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair