STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2128

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2724

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. 2724 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for a consultant to conduct a feasibility study for a Hawaii state public safety and emergency response training facility. 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Department of Defense, Department of Public Safety, and the State Fire Council.

     This measure will help ensure that state fire fighters, law enforcement officers, including county police, corrections officers, and Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Conservation and Resources enforcement officers, and other emergency first-responders are fully prepared to respond to natural and manmade disasters, including acts of terrorism by providing the means of which an appropriate multi-agency training facility will be designed, established, and operated.

     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. 2724 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