STAND. COM. REP. NO.  846-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 1879

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1879, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ONE CALL CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make permanent the exemption of certain pest control activity from the definition of "excavation" with respect to the One Call Center under Chapter 269E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which provides advance warning of subsurface installations in excavation areas.

The Building Industry Association of Hawaii and The Gas Company opposed this measure.  The Public Utilities Commission and Hawaii Pest Control Association provided comments on this measure.

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1879, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1879, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair