Bill Text: HI SB241 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Cool Roofs; Residential Construction; Commercial Construction; Energy Conservation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB241 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB241-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 618

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 241

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 241, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require "cool roofs" on buildings as a prerequisite to obtain a building permit for the construction of a new residential or commercial structure, after January 1, 2011.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Roofing Contractors Association of Hawaii and one individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Hawaii Developers' Council; Building Industry Association of Hawaii; the Hawaii Association of REALTORS; and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

    

     Under this measure, "cool roof" includes a roof that uses any variety of roofing material that has a high solar reflectance and high thermal emittance, carries the United States Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR label, and meets the standards of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR system for low sloped roofs or steep sloped roofs, as applicable.

 

     Your Committee finds that the need to promote energy conservation necessitates that the heat absorption effect from roofs be reduced in order to reduce the cost of cooling homes.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Expanding the definition of "cool roof";

 

     (2)  Allowing a radiant barrier to be installed in lieu of a cool roof if a cool roof version is unavailable in a specific roofing material;

 

     (3)  Deleting the exemption from cool roof requirements for photovoltaic energy systems;

 

     (4)  Clarifying that solar energy systems do not require a variance or an exemption from the cool roof requirements;

 

     (5)  Providing that this measure does not apply to new residential structures that do not utilize heating or cooling systems that require additional energy generation; and

 

     (6)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 241, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 241, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair