Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 17, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the convening of a task force to consider the establishment of a uniform statewide building code.

Your Committee finds that, while statewide conditions affecting construction are nearly identical, each of the counties of this State have adopted its own building code that differs from county to county. This measure requests that the Department of Accounting and General Services establish a task force, to be made up of members of the design and construction industry, to make recommendations pertaining to the adoption of a uniform building code for the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by requesting the inclusion of elements of indigenous architecture in a uniform statewide building code and by adding an architect with expertise in indigenous architecture on the task force. These amendments were intended by your Committees on Business and Economic Development and Intergovernmental Affairs but were inadvertently omitted. Your Committee has further amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for style and consistency.

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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 17, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 17, S.D. 2.