STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2961

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1874

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1874 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VOG,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to add one state Representative and one state Senator, each from a district that is impacted by vog to be selected by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of the Senate, respectively, to serve as members of the Interagency Task Force on Vog.

 

     No testimony was submitted on this measure.

 

     Act 229, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, established within the civil defense agency of a county with an active volcano from which vog emanates, an Interagency Task Force on Vog.  The task force is required to review the effects and impact of vog on human health, school children, agriculture, farm and ranch animals, public infrastructure, the visitor industry, and any other issue the task force deems necessary and make recommendations to the Legislature to address any issue the task force determines is feasible to address.  Your Committees find that representation on the task force by a Representative and a Senator is an invaluable contribution to the work of the task force.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1874, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Health,

 

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JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair