Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2443 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure the availability of immediate emergency aid and resources for the State provided by other states during a disaster by ratifying and allowing Hawaii to become a member of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.

The Department of Defense and Department of Health testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2443, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2443, H.D. 1.