STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3023

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2768

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2768, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Hawaii State Energy Office to adopt rules establishing a clean fuel standard for gasoline and diesel fuel in the State.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Clean Energy, Neste, Biotechnology Innovation Organization, Clean Fuel Hawaii, Island Energy Services, and Simonpietri Enterprises.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Hawaii State Energy Office, Par Hawaii, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the clean fuel standard required by this measure will help decarbonize Hawaii's transportation fuels and aligns with the State's goal of achieving one hundred percent clean energy by 2045.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2768, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair