STAND. COM. REP. NO.  314-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2719

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Tourism & Culture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2719 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREWORKS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to allow for more restrictive fireworks regulation by prohibiting counties from enacting ordinances or adopting rules regulating fireworks or articles pyrotechnic that are less restrictive than the provisions of the state fireworks law. 

 

     The State Fire Council and the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association supported this bill.  The Legislative Information Services of Hawaii opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2025, to encourage further discussion.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism & Culture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2719, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2719, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism & Culture,

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair