STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1196

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1138

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1138 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIRE PROTECTION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the responsibility of the County Fire Chief or designees does not extend to the inspection of state-owned airports.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

     Your Committees find that it is important to clarify the fire inspection responsibilities of the State and the various counties as they relate to state-owned airport facilities.  As such, it is the intent of your Committees to require the State to uphold the responsibilities for fire and safety inspections at all state-owned airport facilities, thus eliminating the duplication of services and allowing the county fire departments to focus on county fire safety issues.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1138, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs,

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair