STAND. COM. REP. NO.  153-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1868

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 1868 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to augment the State's disaster preparedness by authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds to fund the retrofitting of public school buildings so they can also be used as emergency shelters.

 

     The Department of Education supported this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1868 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair