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. 2569 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

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

Your Committee 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 Committee believes 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.

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. 2569 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.