Bill Text: HI HB800 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Emergency Appropriation; DBEDT; Hawaii Refinery Task Force ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-24 - Act 78, 5/21/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1178). [HB800 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB800-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 976

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 800

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Energy and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 800, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM FROM THE ENERGY SECURITY SPECIAL FUND,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation in the amount of $145,000 to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism from the energy security special fund for the purpose of staffing and supporting the Hawaii Refinery Task Force to address possible market disruptions to Hawaii's supply of motor vehicle fuel.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from two individuals.

 

     Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committees made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amends the measure by changing the amount of the emergency appropriation from $145,000 to an unspecified amount.

 

     Your Committees find that Tesoro Hawaii will be closing its Kapolei refinery, leaving only one other refinery in the State.  Your Committees agree that it is necessary to fund the Hawaii Refinery Task Force, which is charged with helping the State plan and prepare for possible changes in Hawaii's refining capacity, but find that the amount of the emergency appropriation should be changed from $145,000 to an unspecified amount in order to facilitate further discussion on the matter.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Energy and Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 800, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 800, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Government Operations and Housing and Energy and Environment,

 

____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair		____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair