STAND. COM. REP. NO. 351-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1834

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 1834 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $100,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 to the Department of Defense for the installation of new outdoor sirens in the Salt Lake area of Oahu.

The Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii and a concerned individual supported this measure. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation amount from $100,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 to an unspecified amount.

Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $100,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 to the Department of Defense for the installation of new outdoor sirens in the Salt Lake area of Oahu.

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. 1834, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1834, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair