STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1183

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1092

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1092, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for the purchase of back-up generators to ensure continuous electrical power at state airports and commercial harbors.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; State Department of Defense; Hawaii Hotel & Lodging Association; Kobayashi Travel Service, Ltd.; Roberts Hawaii; Charley's Taxi; and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that emergency back-up generators are essential to ensure uninterrupted operations at state airports and commercial harbors by the provision of continuous electrical power as provided by back-up generators.  These generators will enable the State to provide safe, efficient, and orderly airport and harbor services, without interruption during unforeseen power outages.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the means of financing from general revenues to general obligation bonds, inserting $20,000,000 as the appropriated amount, and making the measure $20,000,000 in general obligation bonds, effective July 1, 2007.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1092, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1092, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair