415 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, HI 96813
| Session length | 4 months |
|---|---|
| Current session | 21 Jan 2026 - 07 May 2026 |
This committee oversees energy resources and the development of renewable and alternative energy resources and energy conservation, as well as environmental quality control and protection, and environmental health.
The scope shall be those programs relating to consumer protection, the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the regulation of trade, business, professions, occupations, and utilities, the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code, matters relating to condominiums, housing cooperatives, and planned communities, and other pertinent matters referred to it by the House.
The scope shall be those programs relating to air, water, and ground transportation, and other pertinent matters referred to it by the House.
The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to business regulation, professional and vocational licensing, consumer protection, financial institutions, insurance regulation, public utility regulation, telecommunications regulation, the landlord tenant code, condominium property regimes, and leaseholds.
The purview of this committee includes programs relating to energy and energy resources, including the development of alternative energy resources; programs related to economic development, including but not limited to authorities and corporations administratively attached to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism unless the authority or corporation is within the purview of another Standing Committee pursuant to this Rule; other emerging industries development, financial and technical assistance to business, film and digital media production, astronomy, space exploration and aerospace development, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, other scientific research and development activities, recreation, including commercial ocean recreation activities, sports and athletics, and the Aloha Stadium; and those programs relating to tourism, including but not limited to the Hawai‘i Convention Center, Hawai‘i Visitors and Convention Bureau, and the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority.
The purview of this committee includes those programs relating to air, water, and surface transportation, and transit-oriented development as it relates to transportation projects.