Bill Text: HI SB2613 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: School Construction; School Renovation; Alternative Energy Design

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-10 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB2613 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2613-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2131

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2613

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2613 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Education to incorporate alternative energy use designs into the construction of new schools and into major renovations to existing schools.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two private organizations and one business.  One state agency submitted testimony in opposition.

 

     Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that nationally, many schools are increasingly demonstrating environmental responsibility and realizing cost savings through green building.  The U.S. Green Building Council has established the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for schools rating system as a tool to set standards for the design and construction of schools.  The LEED for schools rating system scores school buildings in the areas of sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection, and indoor environmental quality.  While a few Hawaii public school facilities, such as the Waipahu Intermediate School cafeteria and Ewa Makai Middle School, have already been LEED certified or registered to attain LEED certification, much more could be done.

 

Your Committees are strongly supportive of expanding alternative energy use in Hawaii's public school buildings in order to reduce Hawaii's dependence on imported fossil fuels and energy costs in the long term.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure for the purposes of further discussion by specifying that:

 

     (1)  The requirement to incorporate alternative energy designs shall be for construction and renovations exceeding $1,000,000; and

 

     (2)  Alternative energy use in newly constructed or renovated school buildings shall generate a minimum of ten per cent of the building's total energy consumption.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Education and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2613, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2613, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Education and Housing,

 

____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair		____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair