Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 655 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the adoption of hurricane-resistant shelter criteria to regulate the planning, design, construction, and equipment of all new public school buildings built after June 30, 2004.

The Departments of Defense and Accounting and General Services submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure.

This measure also applies the criteria for hurricane-resistant shelters established by the adjutant general in 1997 to the planning, design, construction, and equipment of all new public school buildings built before July 1, 2004, that are designated as hurricane emergency shelters.

Your Committees find that assuring the hurricane resistance of new and existing school buildings is an important priority of the State.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 655 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.