STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1655-14
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2014
RE: S.B. No. 1007
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1007, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC LAND LIABILITY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Increase liability protections for the State and counties by extending the conclusive presumption for legally adequate warning to include dangerous non-natural conditions on unimproved public lands; and
(2) Make permanent the liability protections based on posting warning signs regarding outdoor recreation on public lands established by Act 82, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Removing the provisions extending the conclusive presumption for legally adequate warning to include dangerous non-natural conditions on unimproved public lands; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1007, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1007, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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