STAND. COM. REP. NO. 473-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2044

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 Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2044 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KEKAHA KAI STATE PARK,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to hire four full-time permanent state lifeguards to be located at Kua Bay, Kekaha Kai State Park, and to purchase equipment for the lifeguards.

The Mayor of the County of Hawaii; Hawaii County Councilmembers representing Districts 4, 7, and 8; County of Hawaii Fire Department; Kohala Coast Resort Association; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; and two individuals testified in support of this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources commented on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an unspecified amount for the appropriation to purchase equipment to be used by state lifeguards at Kua Bay, Kekaha Kai State Park; and

(2) Changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

Should this measure be heard by your Committee on Finance, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $80,000 for fiscal year 2018-2019 to purchase equipment for the state lifeguards located at Kua Bay.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2044, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2044, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair