OFFICE OF THE SPEAKER

TWENTY-SIXTH STATE LEGISLATURE

 

COMMITTEE REFERRALS

 

 

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NO. 4

6th LEGISLATIVE DAY-JANUARY 28, 2011

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Committee Abbreviations:

 


AGR -  Agriculture

CPC -   Consumer Protection & Commerce

CUA -  Culture & the Arts

EDN -  Education

EEP -   Energy & Environmental Protection

ERB -   Economic Revitalization & Business

FIN -    Finance

HAW - Hawaiian Affairs

HED -  Higher Education

HLT -   Health

HSG -   Housing

HUS -  Human Services

INT -    International Affairs

JUD -   Judiciary

LAB -  Labor & Public Employment

LMG -  Legislative Management

PBM -  Public Safety & Military Affairs

TOU -  Tourism

TRN -  Transportation

WLO - Water, Land, & Ocean Resources


 

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Committee

 

 

RE-REFERRAL

 

 

 

 

HB423

RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS.

Authorizes issuance of special purpose revenue bonds for Carbon Bio-Engineers Inc., for development of non-fossil fuel energy production.

 

EEP, FIN

HB788

RELATING TO RENEWABLE FUELS.

Amends the ethanol facility income tax credit to include other liquid biofuels and to enable larger facilities to be eligible for the tax incentive.

 

ERB/EEP, FIN

HB789

RELATING TO BIOFUEL PRODUCTION FACILITIES.

Establishes a biofuel production facility loan guarantee program administered by the department of business, economic development, and tourism; requires adoption of rules; establishes terms and restrictions; requires annual report.

 

ERB/EEP, FIN

HB1078

RELATING TO SECTION 13 OF ACT 380, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 1997.

Removes the sunset date on the use of new safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and incidental take licenses as recovery options for conserving and protecting the State's threatened and endangered species.

 

WLO/EEP, FIN

HB1256

RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL ROYALTIES.

Requires geothermal royalties paid to the State and OHA to be expended in the county in which the geothermal resource was produced.  Directs the auditor to audit the expenditure of geothermal royalties paid to the State and OHA.

 

WLO/EEP, HAW, FIN