Bill Text: HI HB2158 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To The Boiler And Elevator Safety Law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-18 - Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Eli, Kapela excused (2). [HB2158 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-HB2158-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE BOILER AND ELEVATOR SAFETY LAW.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
""Chief
boiler inspector" means the department employee duly appointed by the
director as the chief boiler and pressure vessel inspector and represents the
State as the voting member of the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel
Inspectors and serves as an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference
Committee member.
"Exclusive employment" means that an inspector
shall be employed on a full-time or part-time basis for only one authorized
inspection agency, owner-user inspection organization, or federal inspection
agency."
"Owner-user
inspection organization" means an owner or user of pressure retaining
items, whose organization and inspection procedures meet the requirements of
the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors, and is approved by
the director."
SECTION
2. Section 397-6, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) All safety inspections required under this
chapter of pressure retaining items shall be performed by deputy boiler
inspectors in the employ of the department who are qualified boiler inspectors
and, when authorized by the director, may be performed by special inspectors
who are qualified boiler inspectors in the [employ] exclusive
employment of insurance companies insuring pressure retaining items in this
State[.] or by owner-user inspectors who are qualified boiler
inspectors in the exclusive employment of an owner-user inspection organization
approved by the director."
SECTION 3. Section 397-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:
"(d)
No later than [ten] thirteen years from
the date of the establishment of the revolving fund, the director shall
reimburse the general fund for the amount of any initial appropriation that was
made by the general revenues of the State to the revolving fund."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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INTRODUCED BY: |
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BY REQUEST |
Report Title:
Boiler and Elevator Safety Law
Description:
Allows the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to permit owner-user inspectors in the exclusive employment of owner-user inspection organizations to perform inspections on pressure retaining items and extends the time from ten to thirteen years for the Director to reimburse the general fund from the Boiler and Elevator Revolving Fund.
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