STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2761

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3049

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3049, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RADIATION LEVELS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Department of Health to implement a radiation monitoring pilot project.

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from one individual.

     Your Committee finds that there is a lingering concern about increased radiation levels reaching Hawaii due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.  The pilot project will involve monitoring radiation levels in a variety of items and posting periodic reports on the Department of Health's website from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2019.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3049, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair