STAND. COM. REP. NO. 389-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2366

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2366 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GREENHOUSE GAS SEQUESTRATION TASK FORCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and Office of Planning and Sustainable Development.

Your Committee finds that the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force, established by Act 15, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018, has similar objectives to the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Commission and that there is no longer a need for the Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force given this redundancy in objectives.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2366, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2366, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

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NICOLE E. LOWEN, Chair