Bill Text: HI HB1051 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Energy; Emergency Preparedness; Information Sharing

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1051 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1051-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  93

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1051

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1051 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide authoritative policy support and functional guidance to meet critical needs of the state by:

 

(1)  Accommodating actual and expected changes in Hawaii's energy (and economic) security and vulnerability, stemming from significant changes in energy and fuel markets;

 

(2)  Updating and aligning key provisions relating to procurement, control, distribution and sale of petroleum products with relevant federal and state overall emergency management laws, and energy emergency management policies and planning guidance;

 

(3)  Addressing economic and energy systems risks associated with transitional issues and trends relating to both petroleum-based fuels and biofuels, and actionable provisions to add sufficiently detailed definition to conduct energy emergency preparedness-related energy analytic functions; and

 

(4)  Providing improvements and updates of the State's energy emergency policy guidance.

 

     The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Department of Defense supported this bill.  The Western States Petroleum Association opposed this measure.  The Office of Information Practices; Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.; Maui Electric Company, Ltd.; and Hawaii Electric Light Company submitted comments.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1051 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair