STAND. COM. REP. NO. 139
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 246
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fourth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2007
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committees on Health and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 246 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to ensure the health and safety of individuals in an emergency situation with the fastest emergency response time possible.
The measure accomplishes this purpose by authorizing the respective counties, with the approval of the Department of Health, to enact ordinances to permit the use of motorcycles operated by emergency rescue workers to respond to emergency rescue calls. The measure also authorizes the counties to identify and use other appropriate response vehicles.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Street Bikers United Hawaii and three individuals.
Your Committees find that emergency response time is often inhibited in rescue operations by intervening factors such as traffic congestion and rescue locations that are inaccessible to automobiles and ambulances. Your Committees intend to accomplish the purpose of this measure by enabling counties to permit the use of motorcycles, and other appropriate vehicles permitted by the counties, operated by emergency rescue workers to respond to emergency rescue calls.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 246 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,
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____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair |
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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