Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2527 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to delete the maximum allowable intervals between state inspections of boilers, pressure systems, and elevators.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR).

Your Committees find that the DLIR performs an invaluable public function by ensuring that potentially dangerous equipment that is commonly used by members of the public is regularly inspected by trained inspectors.

Particularly with respect to elevators, your Committees find that regular inspections by the State are absolutely necessary. The State must make every effort to protect the public safety. While boiler and pressure system inspections are also important, the general public has less contact with those systems, and your Committees find that DLIR should have the flexibility to set the intervals for inspections of those systems through administrative rules.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2527, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2527, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.