Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 344, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to increase the supply of hurricane shelter space by retrofitting public buildings with hurricane protective measures through the issuance of general obligation bonds.

The Department of Education, Department of Defense, and Hawaii State Chapter of the American Red Cross testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

It is your Committee's intent that the interest in HHRF be used first to satisfy the needs for necessary hurricane shelter space before issuing any general obligation bonds.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 344, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 344, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.