STAND. COM. REP. NO. 7

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 201

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 201 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE FIRE MARSHAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to supplement the salary of the State Fire Marshal.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Lāhainā Strong.

Your Committee finds that the State Fire Marshal's salary should be commensurate with the greater responsibilities contemplated in the Lahaina Fire Incident Analysis Report. Your Committee believes that this measure addresses this need by appropriating funds to supplement the salary of the State Fire Marshal.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 201, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 201, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Public Safety.

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

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JACKSON D. SAYAMA, Chair