STAND. COM. REP. NO.416

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 301

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 301 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC DISPLAY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to:

1. Amend the inventory period for a licensee, who provides public displays of fireworks more than once a month, to import and store aerial common fireworks and special fireworks from six months to twenty four months;

2. Charge a $100 license fee for public display companies, including public display companies that import and store fireworks;

3. Repeal the requirement that the firework permit for public display must be obtained not less that twenty days before the date of the display; and

4. Clarify that the fee for permits for public display are in addition to any license fee and that the fee for a permit for public display shall be $110 per event and used for purposes specified in section 132D-11(a) of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee received testimony in favor of the

measure from the Mayor of Hawaii County. The Hawaii Explosive & Pyrotechnics, Inc. provided comments on the measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure will encourage the ease of operation for professional pyrotechnical companies. Your Committee understands the concerns raised regarding the extension of storage time from six months to twenty-four months which may allow opportunity for clandestine sale of common aerial fireworks from the storage stock. However, the provisions of the fireworks statute as amended last legislative session indicated under Section 132D-11 (concerning fees) that license fees shall be used for county auditors who are mandated to monitor strict inventory and recordkeeping requirements to ensure that sales of fireworks are made only to license or permit holders.

Your Committee amended the bill by inserting a provision recommended by the Mayor of Hawaii County requires the storage of aerial common fireworks and special fireworks to be in conformity with county building codes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 301, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 301, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair