STAND. COM. REP. NO.  655

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 Finance, 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 the public health and safety by requiring the Director of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to hire personnel to oversee the mitigation of the hazardous situations program in the Department of Defense and appropriating funds for those positions.

The Department of Defense and City and County of Honolulu Department of Emergency Management provided testimony in support of this measure.

     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. 1344 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair