STAND. COM. REP. NO.  500

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 685

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 685 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure the State Fire Council (SFC) has the resources necessary to carry out its duties by establishing staff positions within the SFC to assist in accomplishing its duties and responsibilities.

 

     SFC, the Honolulu Fire Department, Kauai Fire Department, and Hawaii Fire Department supported this bill.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 685, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 685, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.


 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair

 

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FAYE HANOHANO, Chair