STAND. COM. REP. NO.  762-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2467

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2467, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is improve fire protection by directing that the State Fire Code (Code) include road and sign standards, minimum private water supply reserves, fuel breaks, and green belts for any property over which the county does not have jurisdiction.

     The Dole Food Company opposed this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Honolulu Fire Department provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the substance of this bill and replacing it with a provision requiring the Code to become part of the State Building Code, as required in section 107-26, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS).  The bill also removes current requirements:

(1)  Relating to the consistency of the Code with building and other county codes; and

(2)  To transmit the Code to county councils.

The bill also requires the State to conduct fire and safety inspections at all state-owned airport facilities at least once a year, as required in section 132-6(b), HRS.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2467, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2467, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs,

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KEN ITO, Chair