STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1614-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2397

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 3

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2397, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the counties from requiring the installation or retrofitting of automatic fire sprinklers or an automatic fire sprinkler system in any new or existing detached one- or two-family dwelling unit used for residential purposes and non-residential agricultural and aquacultural buildings or structures outside an urban area, but allows counties to require sprinklers for any new home that requires a variance from access road or fire fighting water supply requirements.

 

     The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation; General Contractors Association of Hawaii; Building Industry Association; Hawaii Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust; RMA Sales; Alan Shintani Incorporated; Gentry Homes, Ltd.; and Coalition of Hawaii Engineering & Architectural Professionals testified in support of this measure.  The State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, and Hawaii Fire Department of the County of Hawaii testified in opposition to this measure.  Complete Construction Services provided comments on this measure.   

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2012; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, 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 S.B. No. 2397, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2397, S.D. 1, H.D. 3.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair