Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2443, H.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enact the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the State Department of Defense.

The Emergency Management Assistance Compact provides mutual assistance between states in managing any emergency or disaster that is declared by the governor of a member state, including natural and man-made disasters, technological hazards, community disorder, and insurgency or enemy attack.

Your Committees believe that mutual assistance between states in times of emergency or disaster would benefit Hawaii, particularly because of the State's vulnerability to natural disasters and geographic isolation.

Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting provisions of S.B. No. 2569, SD1, a companion measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2443, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2443, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.