STAND. COM. REP. NO. 144

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1152
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1152 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
     HEALTH TRAINING AND ASSISTANCE FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to add certification programs
to enhance safety and health as a permissible expenditure for the
occupational safety and health training and assistance fund
(fund).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the DLIR and the Hawaii Island Contractors Association.

     This measure also extends the sunset date for the fund from
July 1, 1999, to July 1, 2003.

     Your Committee finds that since 1995, the fund has been
enormously successful in reducing the frequency of workplace
accidents and reducing the cost to businesses from those
accidents.  According to the DLIR, there are two certification
programs required by law that would be funded from the fund, the
Certified Safety and Health Professional (Act 234, Session Laws
of Hawaii 1995) and Certificate of Fitness for Blasters and
Pyrotechnics Specialists (Section 396-9, Hawaii Revised
Statutes).  


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Environment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1152 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and
                                   Environment,



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                                   BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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