STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2130

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2180

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2180 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DISASTER RELIEF,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to enable the County of Hawaii to recover from the October 2006 earthquake through maximizing available federal reimbursements.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Department of Defense, Mayor of Hawaii County, and the Hawaii County Department of Water Supply. 

     The earthquake of October 2006 caused great damage in the County of Hawaii.  Although the Legislature authorized an emergency appropriation in 2007, the County of Hawaii still requires additional state assistance to enable it to receive matching federal funds.

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2180 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair