STAND. COM. REP. NO. 581-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 1817

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1817 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREWORKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to update the fireworks law by:

(1) Better regulating the importation, storage, transfer, sale, and use of professional pyrotechnic devices known as articles pyrotechnic;

(2) Using terminology consistent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; and

(3) Deleting references to the United States Bureau of Explosives.

The County of Hawaii Fire Department and Legislative Information Services of Hawaii testified in support of this bill. The Hawaii Food Industry Association supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to August 1, 2096, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct drafting errors.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1817, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1817, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair