Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2183 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to address a critical shortfall in emergency shelter spaces throughout the state by authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to retrofit public school facilities so they may serve as emergency shelters.

The Department of Education and Department of Defense testified in support of this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Public Safety & Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2183 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.