STAND. COM. REP. NO. 458-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2422

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. 2422 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BOILER AND ELEVATOR SAFETY LAW,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to update the Boiler and Elevator Safety Law by:

(1) Redefining "boiler" within the Boiler and Elevator Safety Law;

(2) Reclassifying the Boiler and Elevator Special Fund to a Boiler and Elevator Revolving Fund;

(3) Extending the time from five years to ten years for the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to reimburse the general fund from the Boiler and Elevator Revolving Fund; and

(4) Making housekeeping amendments to the Boiler and Elevator Safety Law.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

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. 2422, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2422, 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