Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1206 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help residents of and visitors to Hawaii prepare for a tsunami by appropriating funds to revise current tsunami inundation maps from a one-dimensional format to a clearer, two-dimensional format for a period of three years.

The Oahu Civil Defense Agency, Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaii Electric Light Company, and Maui Electric Company testified in support of this bill. The state Department of Defense supported the intent of the measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the amounts appropriated to promote further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1206, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1206, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.