STAND. COM. REP. NO. 263-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2097

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 Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2097 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIFEGUARDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to hire lifeguards to monitor state and county beach parks.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Council Member representing District 4 of the County of Hawaii, Hawaii Fire Department, Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO, and two individuals supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the amount appropriated to an unspecified amount;

(2) Appropriating an additional unspecified amount out of the Tourism Special Fund for the Department of Land and Natural Resources to hire lifeguards to monitor state and county beach parks; and

(3) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

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. 2097, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2097, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair