STAND. COM. REP. NO. 481-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2556
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2556 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SAFETY INSPECTION FREQUENCIES
     FOR REGULATED EQUIPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the Department of Labor
and Industrial Relations (DLIR) to set inspection frequencies
based on public safety needs as opposed to fixed inspection
intervals.

     The DLIR submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     The present law requires that effective July 1, 2000,
inspection of regulated equipment, including boilers, pressure
systems, amusement rides, and elevators, at an interval that does
not exceed seven months nor less than five months.  The bill
amends the present law by deleting the inspection requirement
aforesaid.

     Safety reasons dictate that regulated equipment be inspected
periodically.  There is no conclusive evidence that inspections
at seven-month intervals will jeopardize safety considerations.
 
     Upon careful consideration, your Committee has amended the
bill by requiring effective July 1, 2000, safety inspection
intervals that do not exceed seven months, which will give the
DLIR greater flexibility in allocating its inspection resources.

 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2556, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2556, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair