STAND. COM. REP. NO. 159

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1476

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1476 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREWORKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify fireworks terminology to be consistent with federal law.

In particular, this measure employs common terminology that is consistent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; deletes all references to the defunct "United States Bureau of Explosives"; includes and defines articles pyrotechnic so as to regulate the importation, storage, transferring, sale, or use of those devices; and includes articles pyrotechnic in the term "display".

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Fire Council and Legislative Information Services of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to conform current law with federal laws and regulations regulating fireworks as a matter of safety.

Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1476, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1476, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair