STAND. COM. REP. NO.  183-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2051

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2051 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to support the operations and duties of the State Building Code Council.

The Department of Accounting and General Services, State Building Code Council, Department of Fire & Public Safety of the County of Maui, Honolulu Fire Department, Hawaii State Fire Council, Kauai Fire Department, Building Industry Association of Hawaii, General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Laborers' Union Local 368, Subcontractors Association of Hawaii, and Hawaii Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its appropriation amount to an unspecified sum.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2051, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2051, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair