STAND. COM. REP. NO. 88

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 742

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 742 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the State Fire Council to employ an Administrator and Administrative Assistant.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one state department and one county department.

     This measure specifies the duties of the Administrator and Administrative Assistant.  The monies for the positions would come from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, under which the State Fire Council is placed administratively in current law.

     Your Committee finds that currently, the State Fire Council has one part-time Administrative Assistant position, and there is no statutory provision for the hiring of staff.  More positions are needed for the State Fire Council to fulfill its statutory mandates and to protect the public safety. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 742, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 742, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair