CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 83-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1586

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

C.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 1586, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISASTER RESPONSE,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require federal disaster relief reimbursement monies, except federal disaster relief reimbursement monies for the Department of Education, to be deposited into a trust account of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency and reimbursed to the originating fund of the expending agency, and require monies to be returned to the general fund upon lapse of the original appropriation;

(2) Require the Administrator of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the status of federal reimbursement monies for disaster response and each agency's disaster response spending; and

(3) Appropriate monies to the Department of Defense for disaster response efforts.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that state departments, in addition to state agencies, shall submit a report of all funds expended for disaster response efforts;

(2) Deleting language that would have required the Administrator to include information about the counties in their annual report to the Legislature regarding reimbursement monies;

(3) Deleting language that would have appropriated funds for the Department of Defense for disaster response efforts;

(4) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2022; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1586, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1586, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA Chair	____________________________ LINDA ICHIYAMA Co-Chair
____________________________ BENNETTE MISALUCHA Co-Chair	____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON Co-Chair
	____________________________ STACELYNN K. M. ELI Co-Chair