Bill Text: HI HB247 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Disaster Preparedness Interagency Task Force

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-09 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and none excused (0). [HB247 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB247-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  202-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 247

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 247 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISASTER PREPAREDNESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the health and safety of our communities by establishing the Disaster Preparedness Interagency Task Force to carry out specific duties to mitigate the negative impacts of natural hazards, including the harmful effects of vog.

 

     The Department of Health and Department of Defense opposed this bill.  The Department of Education submitted comments.

 

     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. 247 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair