STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1026

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1436

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1436, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AWARDED FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $75,000 to the Department of Accounting and General Services to update statewide building code standards for hurricane mitigation and secure a reimbursement grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.

The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency; Hawaii State Fire Council; City and County of Honolulu Department of Emergency Management; Maui Fire Department; Structural Engineers Association of Hawaii; American Council of Engineering Companies of Hawaii; THE MARITIME GROUP, LLC; and one individual testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount from $75,000 to an unspecified amount; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 1436, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1436, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair