Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2307 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

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

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the State Department of Defense, Department of Human Resources Development, and one individual.

The EMAC 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 making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to conform with proper drafting style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2307, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2307, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Ways and Means.