STAND. COM. REP. NO.  407

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1119

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1119 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BOILER AND ELEVATOR SAFETY LAW,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to update boiler and elevator safety laws by making housekeeping amendments to delete obsolete language and extend the schedule for reimbursement of the general fund for appropriations made to establish the Boiler and Elevator Special Fund from five to ten years.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the International Union of Elevator Constructors, Local 126.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; 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 Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1119, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1119, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair