STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2737

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2803

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2803, S.D. 1, 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 make amendments to the boiler and elevator safety law.

Specifically, this measure:

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

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

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

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

Your Committee finds that as currently written, the boiler and elevator safety law contains various definitions that either are no longer a part of applicable standards, have transitioned to the jurisdiction of other work groups, are excluded from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Safety codes, or are non-existent in Hawaii. Therefore, your Committee finds that it is necessary to update this law to comply with national standards.

Your Committee further finds that extending the reimbursement schedule for moneys appropriated from the general fund to the boiler and elevator special fund will help to allow safety operations to continue while maintaining a feasible payment schedule.

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2803, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2803, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair