STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2334

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2668

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and Energy, to which was referred S.B. No. 2668 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to codify the State's commitment to conservation and sustainability by including goal seven, affordable and clean energy, of the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and indicators, with references to existing state sustainability programs, if applicable, in the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Office of Planning; Hawaii Island Economic Development Board; Sierra Club of Hawaii; Airports Concessionaires Committee; Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii; and three individuals

 

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii has been a leader in conservation efforts for decades, through its commitment to environmental and sustainability policies, and that the priority of the Senate for the Regular Session of 2018 is to adopt the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals at the state level.  The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.  This measure codifies Sustainable Development Goal seven, affordable and clean energy, into state law.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Energy that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2668 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Energy,

 

 

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair