Bill Text: HI HB2644 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water Carrier; Tariffs

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-06 - (S) Act 232, 7/5/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1335). [HB2644 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2644-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  170-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2644

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 2644 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Public Utilities Commission to implement best practices in the areas of regulatory frameworks, rules and procedures, and information technology and public access.  Additionally, this measure appropriates funds to implement best practices.

 

     The Public Utilities Commission testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the specific dollar amount from the appropriation; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2644, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2644, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

		____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair