Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2667 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the law relating to fireworks by using terminology consistent with federal law.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Hawaii State Fire Council, the City and County of Honolulu Police Department, and Legislative Information Services of Hawaii submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure will assist the enforcement and regulation of the fireworks control law.

Upon further consideration, your Committee amended this measure to conform section 7 and section 16 to the other sections of the measure, so that the amendments under those sections apply to aerial devices, display fireworks, and articles pyrotechnic.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2667, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2667, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.