Bill Text: HI HB1362 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Starlight Reserve; Extends Termination Date of Advisory Committee

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1362 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1362-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  451

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1362

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business, to which was referred H.B. No. 1362 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STARLIGHT RESERVE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address light pollution issues that adversely affect important state interests, including scientific research, reduction of energy consumption, protection of endangered species, and improvement of night sky quality, by extending the termination date of the temporary advisory committee relating to the statewide starlight reserve strategy from June 30, 2011, to June 30, 2013.

 

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the University of Hawaii, Hawaii Starlight Reserve Committee, and Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter.

 

     Your Committee finds that the purposes of Act 161, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, which established the Starlight Reserve Committee to assist the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop a statewide intelligent lighting and light pollution plan, have not been accomplished due to a delay in the formation of the committee.  Accordingly, your Committee finds that it is necessary to extend the termination date of the Starlight Reserve Committee to ensure that a comprehensive statewide intelligent lighting and light pollution plan is developed.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1362 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business,

 

 

		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair