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 S.B. No. 2785 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to delete the inspection intervals for inspections for boiler or pressure systems and elevators.

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

This measure comes with a long history of the DLIR trying to reduce its inspections of boiler, pressure systems, and elevators. The basic reason is a lack of resources, i.e., trained inspectors. Furthermore, the DLIR has stated that its inspection is unnecessary because building owners typically are required by their liability insurers to have the elevators regularly inspected.

Your Committees respectfully disagree with the DLIR. Particularly with respect to elevators, there really needs to be regular inspections by the State. Where public safety is involved, the State should not relegate the responsibility to private parties.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Restoring the inspections;

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 S.B. No. 2785, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2785, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.