STAND. COM. REP. NO.  402

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1140

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1140 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE COUNCIL,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enable the State Fire Council (Council) to meet it responsibilities more effectively by authorizing the Council to hire an administrator and an administrative assistant to help in the:

(1)  Management of the daily operations of the Council;

(2)  Administration of the adoption of the State Fire Code;

(3)  Application for and expenditure of federal grant assistance for fire-related projects;

(4)  Conducting statewide training;

(5)  Undertaking educational programs;

(6)  Collection of data; and

(7)  Performance of other duties as directed by the Council.

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, and Kauai Fire Department supported this bill.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1)  Adding an appropriations section;

(2)  Providing an appropriation of $1 to facilitate further discussion;

(3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2015; and

(4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1140, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1140, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair