STAND. COM. REP. NO. 696

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1426

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1426 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LOSS MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to encourage the private development of safe rooms.  Specifically, this measure amends the definition of "wind resistive devices" to include residential safe rooms within the meaning of section 431:22-104(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) and makes safe rooms eligible for grants under section 431:22-104, HRS.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the State Department of Defense, and the Hawaii Lumber Products Association.  Comments were submitted by the Structural Engineers Association of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that during the Special Session of 2005, the State Department of Defense was tasked with developing design criteria for public shelter and residential safe rooms.  Now that criteria have been developed, the intent of this measure is to encourage the private development of safe rooms by providing incentives through grants from the loss mitigation grant fund.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1426, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1426, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing,

 

 

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair