CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 108
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: S.B. No. 960
H.D. 1
C.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 960, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for various tsunami preparedness efforts.
Specifically, the bill provides funds for:
(1) Installing and maintaining new siren systems;
(2) Updating evacuation maps in telephone books;
(3) Constructing additional shelter space and retrofitting existing public buildings that could serve as emergency shelters;
(4) Providing around-the-clock alert staff for the Civil Defense Division of the Department of Defense; and
(5) Expanding the public education campaign to emphasize the need for tsunami preparedness.
Your Committee has amended the measure by expanding the scope of the bill to include any emergency related to a natural disaster. Specifically, the amendments:
(1) Require the Department of Defense to develop Hawaii public shelter and residential safe room design criteria by January 1, 2006; provided that safe room prototype models are developed with public or private sector grants or investments;
(2) Require the Department of Defense to coordinate the work involving retrofitting public buildings with appropriate government agencies;
(3) Appropriate $2,000,000 from the Hurricane Reserve Trust Fund for the 2005-2007 biennium to finance tsunami preparedness efforts and allowing the use of the funds to acquire federal matching funds;
(4) Expand the definition of the term "wind resistive devices" to include safe rooms built pursuant to Department of Defense specifications;
(5) Decrease the reimbursement rate for the installation of wind resistive devices from fifty to thirty-five per cent under the Loss Mitigation Grant Program and delete the reference to "inspection";
(6) Allow the awarding of grants for residential safe rooms under the Loss Mitigation Grant Program;
(7) Authorize the transfer of $2,000,000 to the Loss Mitigation Grant Program through the Hurricane Reserve Trust Fund and the Loss Mitigation Grant Fund; and
(8) Change the effective date of this measure to July 1, 2005.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 960, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 960, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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____________________________ KEN ITO, Co-Chair |
____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair |
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____________________________ KAMEO TANAKA, Co-Chair |
____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair |
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