Bill Text: HI SB2563 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: HCEI; Solar Water Heater Systems; Alternate Fuels Standards

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-06-25 - (H) Act 175, on 6/25/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 396). [SB2563 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2563-Amended.html

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 109-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2010

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2563

       S.D. 1

       H.D. 2

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam and Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2563, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support the use of alternative energy resources in Hawaii.

 

Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Requires the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to impose and collect fees for the administration of the solar water heater system for new residences program and deposit those fees into the energy security special fund; and

 

     (2)  Sets the goal of using alternative fuels to meet thirty per cent of highway fuel demand by 2030.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will assist the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism with administering the program requiring solar water heater systems for new single-family residences.  Permitting the Department to impose and collect fees for the variance application process will support the program and significantly enhance the effectiveness of the statewide strategy to promote renewable energy, particularly with respect to residential solar water heater systems, which are a major component in that strategy. 

 

     Your Committee further finds that currently the goal of achieving alternate fuels standards requires the State to facilitate the development of alternate fuels and support attainment of a statewide alternate fuel standard of ten per cent of highway fuel by 2010, fifteen per cent by 2015, and twenty per cent by 2020.  This measure, which is endorsed by the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative, will continue and expand the State's commitment to achieving an alternate fuels standard of thirty per cent of highway fuel by 2030.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism may impose and collect fees to cover the costs of administering the variances permitted under section 196-6.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the requirement that new single-family residential construction use solar water heater systems; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2563, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2563, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

____________________________ HERMINA MORITA, Co-Chair		____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair
____________________________ DENNY COFFMAN, Co-Chair		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Co-Chair