Bill Text: HI HB451 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Environmental Response, Energy, and Food Security Tax; Liquid, Gaseous, and Solid Fossil Fuels
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-20 - The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB451 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HB451-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 574
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 451
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 H.B. No. 451 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOSSIL FUELS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Expanding the fossil fuel sources subject to the environmental response, energy, and food security tax to include solid fossil fuels;
(2) Changing its effective date to January 1, 2100, to encourage further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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 H.B. No. 451, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 451, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,
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____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair |
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