Bill Text: HI HB2520 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Photovoltaic Ready New Residential Homes
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-17 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [HB2520 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2520-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 104-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: H.B. No. 2520
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2520 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PHOTOVOLTAIC READY NEW RESIDENTIAL HOMES,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to promote the use of solar energy in the state by requiring all new single-family dwellings constructed on or after January 1, 2012, to include photovoltaic ready design elements that provide for future photovoltaic accommodation.
The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Sierra Club–Hawaii Chapter; and Hawaii Solar Energy Association supported this bill. The Hawaii Association of REALTORS supported the intent of this measure. The Blue Planet Foundation supported this bill with suggested amendments. The Building Industry Association and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii opposed this measure.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2520 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Housing,
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____________________________ RIDA CABANILLA, Chair |
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____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Chair |
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