STAND. COM. REP. NO. 845

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 663

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 663 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREWORKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the permit fee for the purchase and use of aerial fireworks, display fireworks, and articles pyrotechnic from $110 to $300.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Maui Fire Department.

     Your Committee finds that the permit fee for the purchase and use of aerial fireworks, display fireworks, and articles pyrotechnic has remained fixed for several years.  Your Committee further finds that this measure increases the permit fee to account for the increased costs for processing, reviewing, and approving those permits.

     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. 663 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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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair