STAND. COM. REP. NO. 626

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 898

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 898, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to exempt any care home, school, or hotel from civil liability that would result in the payment of compensation to persons injured when those facilities are used to shelter-in-place during an officially designated emergency.

     Your Committee finds that providing this exemption from civil liability will promote an increase in the number of private entities that choose to be designated as a shelter-in-place facility during an officially designated emergency.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 898, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 898, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair