Report Title:

Capital Improvement Project; Civil Defense

 

Description:

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund the installation of additional sirens to the state civil defense warning system.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

293

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to civil defense.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that Hawaii is vulnerable to a tsunami or hurricane disaster and recognizes the importance in remaining vigilant in protecting its residents and guests from these disasters.  In view of lessons learned from the 2004 tsunami in South East Asia and Hurricane Katrina in Florida in 2005, and because these natural disasters pose a great potential to cause vast devastation to Hawaii, the legislature deems it vitally important to ensure the State is adequately prepared to deal with these disasters.  While the State and related private agencies have made great strides in becoming capable of handling a tsunami or hurricane disaster, more resources are needed to upgrade and decrease coverage gaps in the existing warning systems.

     The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to add urgently-needed civil defense siren warning systems throughout the State.

     SECTION 2.  The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $2,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in each year of fiscal biennium 2007-2009, and the same sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated for fiscal biennium 2007-2009, for the purpose of installing additional sirens to the state civil defense warning systems.

     SECTION 3.  The appropriation made for the capital improvement project authorized by this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2010, shall lapse as of that date.

     SECTION 4.  The sums appropriated in section 2 of this Act shall be expended by the department of defense for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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