Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2527, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to lengthen the minimum period for mandatory state inspections of elevators and kindred equipment from eight months to one year, and to eliminate any minimum period for inspections of boilers and pressure systems.

Your Committee finds that present law requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to inspect boilers and pressure systems at least once every thirteen months. By repealing this required period for reinspections, this measure allows the department to set the reinspection intervals for boilers and pressure systems based on public safety concerns.

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 H.B. No. 2527, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.