STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3723

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    GOV. MSG. NO. 873

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred Governor's Message No. 873, submitting for study and consideration the nomination of: 

 

Tax Review Commission

 

G.M. No. 873

DAWN LIPPERT,

for a term to expire 06-30-2019 (Date of expiration removed by GM890),

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     Your Committee reviewed the personal statement and resume submitted by Dawn Lippert and finds that the nominee has the necessary qualifications to serve on the Tax Review Commission.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the nomination of Dawn Lippert from the Department of Taxation.

 

     Ms. Lippert received a Master's degree in Environmental Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies from Yale University.  Ms. Lippert is the co-founder and the Director of Energy Excelerator.  She previously served as a senior consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton in the Washington D.C. area, where she drafted legislation; developed strategies, implementation plans, and energy models; and performed financial analysis for the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative.

 

     Ms. Lippert is active in the community as the Chair of Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative Advisory Board and as the founder of Women in Renewable Energy.  She also serves on the boards of the Department of Education's Clean Energy Incubator Network, the University of Hawaii's Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship, the Entrepreneur's Foundation of Hawaii, and YWCA of Oahu.

 

     Your Committee believes that Ms. Lippert's extensive business and consulting experience will be beneficial to the Commission in conducting a systematic review of the State's tax structure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committee, after full consideration of the background, experience, and qualifications of the nominee, has found the nominee to be qualified for the position to which nominated and recommends that the Senate advise and consent to the nomination.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair