STAND. COM. REP. NO. 276

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1061

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1061 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the retail sale or distribution of novelty lighters.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two state agencies.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature’s website.

 

     Your Committee finds that prohibiting the retail sale or distribution of novelty lighters will decrease the number of fire related calls or emergencies that result from minors inappropriately using novelty lighters.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the reference to National Fire Protection Agency to National Fire Protection Association; and

 

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1061, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1061, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair