STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3096

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3126

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3126, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOILER AND ELEVATOR SAFETY LAW,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to authorize certain qualified boiler inspectors to perform safety inspections of pressure retaining items.

More specifically, this measure:

(1) Allows the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to authorize qualified boiler inspectors in the exclusive employment of an owner-user inspection organization to perform safety inspections of pressure retaining items; and

(2) Provides the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations an additional three years to reimburse the general fund for the initial appropriation made into the Boiler and Elevator Revolving Fund.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Hawaiian Electric Company, and Par Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that by allowing the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to authorize inspections by owner-user organizations, this measure will enhance the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations' ability to inspect, and ensure the safe operation and use of, boilers, pressure vessels, and pressure systems in the State. Your Committee also finds that providing the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations additional time to reimburse the general fund will help to ensure the continued safe operation of boilers, pressure vessels, pressure systems, amusement rides, and elevator and kindred equipment throughout the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying the authority of the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to appoint a Chief Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspector; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of 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. 3126, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3126, 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