Bill Text: HI HB2631 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Petroleum Industry; Information
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-05-28 - (H) Act 152, on 5/28/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 369). [HB2631 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2631-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3050
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 2631
H.D. 2
S.D. 2
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committees on Judiciary and Government Operations and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2631, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENERGY INDUSTRY REPORTING,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to repeal the Petroleum Industry Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Program, and its special fund and to reduce the amount of information that refiners and distributors are required to report to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism on fuel and biofuel imported, exported, sold, transferred, used, refined, manufactured, compounded, and distributed in this State.
Your Committees received written comments in support of the intent of this measure, with suggested amendments, from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Your Committees received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Western States Petroleum Association. The Public Utilities Commission submitted comments regarding this measure. Written comments presented to your Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committees find that the Petroleum Industry Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Program has not revealed any evidence of economic misbehavior in the petroleum market since its inception in 2007 and is unnecessarily burdensome.
Your Committees recognize, however, that continued information collection is essential for consumer protection and for the Energy Resources Coordinator to effectuate statutory functions in chapters 196 and 125C, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Your Committees believe that the scaled back information reporting requirements in this measure will be sufficient to meet those needs.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Making the revisions to the measure recommended by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, to facilitate the limited information reporting requirements described above, including the establishment of the energy data collection program;
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050 to facilitate further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Government Operations and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2631, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2631, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Government Operations and Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair |
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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