STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1050

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 40

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 40 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR THE PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW STATE EMERGENCY OPERATING CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide funding for planning, design, and construction of a new State Emergency Operating Center.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Director of Civil Defense, State Department of Defense.

     Your Committee finds that emergency management is one of the most important and critical functions of state government.

     Your Committee further finds that it is the intent of the Legislature to expand and improve Hawaii's emergency management operations by supporting the construction of a new State Emergency Operating Center. 

     Your Committee further finds that the State Civil Defense received federal funding in the amount of $1.5 million to plan and design the State Emergency Operating Center.  As such, your Committee amended this measure and its title by removing the references to the planning and design of the State Emergency Operating Center.  It is the intent of your Committee to support the approval of funding for the construction of the State Emergency Operating Center in order to enhance Hawaii's emergency management capabilities. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 40, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 40, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair