Bill Text: HI HB58 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating To Green Energy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-23 - Referred to EEP, FIN, referral sheet 1 [HB58 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2017-HB58-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

58

TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to green energy.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 269-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§269-5  Annual report and register of orders.  The public utilities commission shall prepare and present to the governor in the month of January in each year a report respecting its actions during the preceding fiscal year.  This report shall include summary information and analytical, comparative, and trend data concerning major regulatory issues acted upon and pending before the commission; cases processed by the commission, including their dispositions; utility company operations, capital improvements, and rates; utility company performance in terms of efficiency and quality of services rendered; [financing orders issued, adjustments made to the public benefits fee, and repayments or credits provided to electric utility customers pursuant to part X or chapter 196, part IV;] a summary of power purchase agreements, including pricing, in effect during the fiscal year; environmental matters having a significant impact upon public utilities; actions of the federal government affecting the regulation of public utilities in Hawaii; long and short-range plans and objectives of the commission; together with the commission's recommendations respecting legislation and other matters requiring executive and legislative consideration.  Copies of the annual reports shall be furnished by the governor to the legislature.  In addition, the commission shall establish and maintain a register of all its orders and decisions, which shall be open and readily available for public inspection, and no order or decision of the commission shall take effect until it is filed and recorded in this register."

     SECTION 2.  Chapter 196, part IV, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

     SECTION 3.  Chapter 269, part X, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2019.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Green Infrastructure Loans; Green Infrastructure Bonds; Repeal

 

Description:

Repeals the Green Infrastructure Loans and Green Infrastructure Bonds programs.

 

 

 

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