STAND. COM. REP. NO. 900-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2183

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2183 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY SHELTERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve public safety by authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to retrofit public school facilities to enable them to be used as emergency shelters.

The Department of Defense and Department of Education testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for consistency, clarity, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2183, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2183, H.D. 1.

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

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair