STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2839

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2184

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2184 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to promote statewide fire and life safety programs and activities.

 

More specifically, this measure provides the State Fire Council with the authority to:

 

     (1)  Expend moneys in the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund to defray the costs of the Council's fire and life safety programs and activities; and

 

     (2)  Hire either a full-time assistant or part-time personnel.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Kauai County Fire Department; Hawaii Fire Department; and Maui County Department of Fire and Public Safety.

 

     Your Committee finds that employing additional personnel would allow the State Fire Council to increase its promotion of statewide fire and life safety programs and activities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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. 2184, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2184, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair