STAND. COM. REP. NO. 143

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 352

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 352 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LEAD-BASED PAINT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to prohibit, beginning after December 31, 2021, the use of lead-based paint on outdoor structures, whether applied to new outdoor structures or already-existing outdoor structures.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Community Alliance on Prisons, and three individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that lead poisoning can cause several maladies, including neurological damage, behavioral and learning disabilities in children, kidney damage, and miscarriages, and as such, lead-based paints on outdoor structures can be hazardous to workers, contaminate the environment, and expose children and adults to unnecessary risks.  Your Committee recognizes that while there are both existing federal and state laws prohibiting the use of lead-based paints, there are none that prohibit structures (indoor or outdoor) from containing pre-existing lead-based paint.

 

     To address the health and environmental hazards, this measure prohibits the use of lead-based paint on outdoor structures after December 31, 2021, whether on new or pre-existing structures.  However, because the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission issued regulations prohibiting lead-based paints in 1978, and amended those regulations as recently as 2009, your Committee also finds that a public education campaign is not necessary to notify the public of the prohibitions set forth in this measure.

 

     Therefore, your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 352, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 352, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

 

 

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JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair