STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2041

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 558

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 558, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to prevent injuries and deaths at Kua Bay on the Island of Hawaii.

Specifically, this measure appropriates funds for the employment of lifeguards and for the purchase of life-saving equipment at Kua Bay in Kekaha Kai State Park.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Tourism Authority, Mayor of the County of Hawaii, two members of the Hawaii County Council, Hawaii County Fire Commission, and four individuals.

Your Committee finds that emergency medical service patient care reported twenty-eight emergency calls from the Kua Bay area between 2013 and 2016, with nineteen of those calls resulting in hospitalization for traumatic injury. Your Committee further finds that the appropriations made by this measure will help to protect the residents and visitors who use Kekaha Kai State Park.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity 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 H.B. No. 558, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 558, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair