STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2833

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2720

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2720, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the State Fire Council to employ an administrator and an administrative assistant.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the State Fire Council and the Legislative Information Services of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that the level of operations and responsibility of the State Fire Council warrants the establishment of full-time equivalent staff support.  The Council is placed within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for administrative purposes.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding an unspecified amount of funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations for the two State Fire Council positions, and making a conforming amendment to its effective date.  Your Committee also made technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2720, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2720, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair