STAND. COM. REP. NO.  318

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1344

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 1344 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MITIGATION OF HAZARDOUS SITUATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect public health and safety by requiring the Director of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to hire personnel to oversee the mitigation of hazardous situations program in the Department of Defense and appropriating funding for those positions.

The Adjutant General and the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency of the Department of Defense supported this measure.

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating a total of $89,124 for each year of the fiscal biennium 2015-2017 for both a coordinator position and a contracting specialist position.

     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 H.B. No. 1344 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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GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair