STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1924-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 3087

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3087, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COMPACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to adopt the Emergency Management Assistance Compact in a new chapter of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Defense and Hawai‘i Emergency Management Agency.

Your Committee finds that the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, currently codified under chapter 128F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, should be moved into the emergency management series of the Hawaii Revised Statutes to provide concise, logical organization to the emergency management laws of the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a preamble;

(2) Clarifying that for the purposes of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, the Adjutant General is the State's legally designated state official who is assigned responsibility for emergency management and authorized representative who may request assistance of another party state; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3087, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3087, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair