STAND. COM. REP. NO. 351

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 934

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Agriculture and Environment and Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism, to which was referred S.B. No. 934 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEASUREMENT STANDARDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to exempt hydrogen fuels from petroleum product measurement requirements.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Energy Office, Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies, Alliance for Automotive Innovation, Hawaii Food Industry Association, Servco Pacific Inc., Hawai‘i Gas, Ulupono Initiative LLC, Hawaii Automobile Dealers' Association, and Blue Planet Foundation. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Agriculture.

Your Committees find that hydrogen, as a renewable fuel, offers great promise for Hawaii. Your Committees further find that the existing measurement standards law implies that hydrogen must be sold based on measure, yet the State currently does not have a means to measure and certify hydrogen dispensers. This measure will assist the State in utilizing other forms of renewable fuels by explicitly exempting hydrogen from measurement standards relating to fuel.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Environment and Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 934 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Environment and Energy, Economic Development, and Tourism,

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

________________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair