Bill Text: HI HB2515 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Emergency Management.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-03-14 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM. [HB2515 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2515-Amended.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 127A-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
1. By amending the definition of "disaster" to read:
""Disaster" means [any emergency,] the
occurrence or imminent threat [thereof, which results or may likely result in] of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of
life, property, or environment resulting from any sudden natural or
artificial cause, including hurricanes, windstorms, floods, extreme rain
events, earthquakes, landslides, mudslides, volcanic action, tsunamis, fires,
explosions, air or water contamination, blight, droughts, infestations, riots,
sabotage, hostile military or paramilitary action, disruption of state
services, hazardous material accidents, disease or contagion outbreaks,
bioterrorism, terrorism, or incidents involving weapons of mass destruction
and requires, or may require, assistance from other counties, states, the
federal government, or from private agencies."
2. By amending the definition of
"emergency" to read:
""Emergency" means
[any] the occurrence, or imminent threat thereof, [which
results or may likely result in substantial injury or] of a disaster
that causes or may be likely to cause catastrophic harm and immediate
danger to the population [or], substantial damage to or loss
of property, or substantial damage to or loss of the environment[.]
and that timely action can avert or minimize."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2042.
Report Title:
Emergency Management; Disasters; Emergencies; Definitions
Description:
Clarifies the types of events that constitute disasters and emergencies for the purposes of emergency management. Takes effect 7/1/2042. (SD1)
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