STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3361

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

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




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2556, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, 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 repeal the requirement that
the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations perform safety
inspections every five to seven months of every boiler, pressure
system, amusement ride, and elevator and kindred equipment.

     Your Committee finds that giving the Department the
flexibility to determine the frequency of safety inspections is
more efficient than mandating a schedule of inspections through
statute.

     Your Committee is also committed to safety and has been
assured by the department that the provisions of the bill do not
in any way represent an easing of this standard.  It is the
intent of the Committee that this bill have no detrimental effect
on safety in these areas.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2556, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, 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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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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