Bill Text: HI SB19 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Renewable Energy; Landlords; Lessors; Public Utility
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-09 - Act 261, 7/3/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1364). [SB19 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB19-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1184
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: S.B. No. 19
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 19, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Exempting from the definition of "public utility" a landlord or lessor who owns, operates, or manages renewable energy systems on their property and provides, sells, or transmits the power generated from the renewable energy systems to an electric utility and lessee or tenant on the same property;
(2) Providing that the rate schedule charged to the lessee or tenant shall not be greater than the rate charged per kilowatt hour by the electric utility; and
(3) Specifying that disputes concerning the provision, sale, or transmission of power generated from renewable energy systems, including rate schedules charged to the lessee or tenant shall be resolved pursuant to provisions of the lease agreement or provisions of the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that its purpose is to exempt landlords and lessors who install renewable energy systems on their property and provide, sell, or transmit the power generated therefrom to tenants or lessees on the same property from the definition of "public utility"; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 19, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 19, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,
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____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair |