STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2114

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2803

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2803 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Update boiler and elevator safety laws by making housekeeping amendments to delete obsolete language;

(2) Rename the boiler and elevator special fund as the boiler and elevator revolving fund; and

(3) Extend the schedule for reimbursement of the general fund for appropriations made to establish the boiler and elevator special fund from five to ten years.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Your Committee finds that current state law contains various definitions of elevators and kindred equipment that are either no longer a part of applicable standards, transitioned to the jurisdiction of other work groups, excluded from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers A17.1, Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators, or non-existent in Hawaii; therefore, it is necessary to update the state laws to comply with the national standards.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2803, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2803, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair