HB 2631 Summary

• Repeals the Petroleum Industry Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Program under Chapter 486J, Hawaii Revised Statutes, along with its special fund and the Public Utilities Commission's data analysis requirement.

• Establishes a new Energy Data Collection Program requiring refiners and distributors to submit monthly reports to the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism on fuels imported, exported, sold, transferred, used, refined, manufactured, and distributed in Hawaii.

• Renames Chapter 486J to the "Energy Industry Information Reporting Act" and specifies that monthly statements be filed with the Research and Economic Analysis Division of DBEDT.

• Exempts monthly statements and contained data from public disclosure under the Uniform Information Practices Act.

• Effective date: July 1, 2010.