STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3279

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2467

       H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2467, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the State Fire Council to adopt a State Fire Code to become part of but without being bound by the form of the State Building Code and also require the State to conduct annual fire and safety inspections at state-owned airport facilities.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Fire Department, the Department of Fire and Public Safety, County of Maui, and the Hawaii Fire Department.

 

     Your Committees find the need to maintain consistent language in the State Fire Code with the language in the State Building Code may not be necessary, but that the State Fire Code should be part of the State Building Code, as provided in section 107-25, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     Your Committees further find that it is the responsibility of the State to provide fire protection and safety at state-owned airport facilities.  This measure expressly states that the State Fire Code requires the State to conduct annual fire and safety inspections at all state-owned airport facilities, as required in section 132-6(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2467, H.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs,

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair