STAND. COM. REP. NO. 902

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 960

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 960 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to upgrade the State's tsunami preparedness efforts.

Your Committee believes that this appropriation will support those efforts through the installing of new siren systems, updating evacuation maps, constructing new shelter space, providing around-the-clock alert staff for the civil defense division, and expanding public education campaigns emphasizing the need for tsunami preparedness.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 960 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair