THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	3126
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO THE BOILER AND ELEVATOR SAFETY LAW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 397-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding three new definitions to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

""Chief boiler inspector" means the department employee duly appointed by the director as the chief boiler and pressure vessel inspector and represents the State as the voting member of the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors and serves as an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference Committee member.

"Exclusive employment" means that an inspector shall be employed on a full-time or part-time basis for only one authorized inspection agency, owner-user inspection organization, or federal inspection agency."

"Owner-user inspection organization" means an owner or user of pressure retaining items, whose organization and inspection procedures meet the requirements of the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors, and is approved by the director."

SECTION 2. Section 397-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) All safety inspections required under this chapter of pressure retaining items shall be performed by deputy boiler inspectors in the employ of the department who are qualified boiler inspectors and, when authorized by the director, may be performed by special inspectors who are qualified boiler inspectors in the [employ] exclusive employment of insurance companies insuring pressure retaining items in this State[.] or by owner-user inspectors who are qualified boiler inspectors in the exclusive employment of an owner-user inspection organization approved by the director."

SECTION 3. Section 397-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

"(d) No later than [ten] thirteen years from the date of the establishment of the revolving fund, the director shall reimburse the general fund for the amount of any initial appropriation that was made by the general revenues of the State to the revolving fund."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	BY REQUEST

Report Title:

Boiler and Elevator Safety Law

Description:

Allows the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to permit owner-user inspectors in the exclusive employment of owner-user inspection organizations to perform inspections on pressure retaining items and extends the time from ten to thirteen years for the Director to reimburse the general fund from the Boiler and Elevator Revolving Fund.

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