STAND. COM. REP. NO.  495

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 927

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 927 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce the temptation for children to use lighters and the danger of fires and the damages caused by banning the sale or distribution of novelty lighters in the state.

     The State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, and Kauai Fire Department testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Judiciary to considering removing the misdemeanor penalty in subsection (c) if it is too stringent a penalty for the crime in this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 927 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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FAYE HANOHANO, Chair