STAND. COM. REP. NO.  751-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   S.B. No. 2054

      S.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred S.B. No. 2054, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish within the state Civil Defense Agency the position of Statewide Communications Interoperability Coordinator and to appropriate federal funds received from the homeland security grant program to fund this new position.

     The Department of Defense testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources supported the intent of 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 S.B. No. 2054, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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FAYE HANOHANO, Chair