Bill Text: HI HB1149 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Wind Energy Facilities; Decommissioning

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-09 - Act 262, 7/3/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1365). [HB1149 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1149-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  804

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1149

      H.D. 3

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1149, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WIND ENERGY FACILITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect the public against health and safety hazards and to preserve the natural beauty of Hawaii by establishing standards and assurances of adequate financial resources for safe and proper decommissioning that shall apply to wind energy facilities at the end of their useful lives, unless an owner of a wind energy facility has an existing lease or other agreement that provides for decommissioning.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Division of Consumer Advocacy and an individual provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion; 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1149, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1149, H.D. 3.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair