STAND. COM. REP. NO. 408

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1222

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1222 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SEARCH AND RESCUE REIMBURSEMENT ACT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize actions by the State and counties to recover the costs of search and rescue against a person whose failure to exercise reasonable care or failure to comply with the law or public safety warnings necessitated the search and rescue.

Your Committees find that search and rescue operations are enormously expensive, depending on the degree of difficulty, involving personnel and search craft. Oftentimes, the rescue was necessitated by the victim's own heedless and careless behavior. This measure clarifies current law to allow recovery in those kinds of situations.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1222, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1222, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair