STAND. COM. REP. NO.201

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 757

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 757 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HURRICANE SHELTERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow the State and counties to designate buildings that shall comply with hurricane shelter resistance criteria.

The Kauai County Council submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Defense and the Department of Education supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds that modifying already constructed school facilities to comply with resistance hurricane criteria would add to the limited amount of spaces. However, there is concern that the program would be too costly to implement.

Your Committee has amended this bill to:

(1) Remove its applicability from school buildings planned, designed, constructed, and equipped before July 1, 2002.

(2) Insert language to clarify that the Director of Civil Defense is to retain the discretion granted under chapter 128.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 757, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 757, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs,

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NESTOR GARCIA, Chair