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 S.B. No. 2785, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to lengthen the state reinspection period for elevators and kindred equipment from eight months to one year.

Your Committee finds that decreasing the number of inspections will lessen costs imposed on both the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and building owners on the one hand and maintain adequate levels of public safety on the other.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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 S.B. No. 2785, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2785, S.D. 2.