Report Title:
Civil Defense; Disaster Relief; Emergency Preparedness
Description:
Establishes a new department of civil defense to which all civil service, disaster relief, and emergency preparedness powers and functions currently assumed by the state department of defense shall be transferred.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1999 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to a department of civil defense.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to direct the transition to the establishment of a new department of civil defense to which all powers, responsibilities, and functions currently assumed by the state department of defense in the areas of civil defense, disaster relief, and emergency planning, preparedness, and response shall be transferred.
SECTION 2. Section 26-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§26-4 Structure of government. Under the supervision of the governor, all executive and administrative offices, departments, and instrumentalities of the state government and their respective functions, powers, and duties shall be allocated among and within the following principal departments that are hereby established:
(1) Department of human resources development (Section 26-5)
(2) Department of accounting and general services (Section 26-6)
(3) Department of the attorney general (Section 26-7)
(4) Department of budget and finance (Section 26-8)
(5) Department of commerce and consumer affairs (Section 26-9)
(6) Department of taxation (Section 26-10)
(7) University of Hawaii (Section 26-11)
(8) Department of education (Section 26-12)
(9) Department of health (Section 26-13)
(10) Department of human services (Section 26-14)
(11) Department of land and natural resources (Section 26-15)
(12) Department of agriculture (Section 26-16)
(13) Department of Hawaiian home lands (Section 26-17)
(14) Department of business, economic development, and tourism (Section 26-18)
(15) Department of transportation (Section 26-19)
(16) Department of labor and industrial relations (Section 26-20)
(17) Department of defense (Section 26-21)
(18) Department of public safety (Section 26-14.6)[.]
(19) Department of civil defense (Section 26- )."
SECTION 3. During the interim period before the 2007 legislative session the governor shall prepare an organizational and functional plan for the new department and a plan for the orderly transition of the functions transferred by this Act. The governor shall be assisted by a task force appointed by the governor, consisting of representatives of the state department of defense, the civil defense advisory council, the office of disaster relief, the civil defense agency of each county, the citizen's advisory commission on civil defense, and the United States Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. The organizational and functional plan, including any necessary proposed legislation, shall be submitted to the legislature no later than thirty days prior to the convening of the 2007 regular session as part of the executive budget request.
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval and shall be repealed on July 1, 2007, in the event that the legislature fails to enact a law establishing the powers, duties, and other provisions of the department of civil defense
during the regular session of 2007.
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