Bill Text: HI HB2790 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Fireworks; Penalties

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-23 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [HB2790 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2790-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  392-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2790

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs and Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 2790 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREWORKS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to broaden the authority of law enforcement officers to enforce the fireworks law and enhance penalties for fireworks violations.  This measure also prohibits fireworks sales from tents and other temporary structures.

 

     Pacific Fireworks and many concerned individuals supported this bill.  The American Lung Association in Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.  A concerned individual opposed this bill.  The Department of the Attorney General, State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, Hawaii Fire Department, Kauai Fire Department, County of Maui Department of Fire and Public Safety, Legislative Information Services of Hawaii, and many concerned individuals offered comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by removing its contents and replacing it with contents that establish fines and penalties for fireworks-related violations and require the fines to be deposited toward the credit of the county in which the fine was imposed.  The effective date was also changed to January 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs and Public Safety that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2790, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2790, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Tourism, Culture, & International Affairs and Public Safety,

 

 

____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair		____________________________ JOEY MANAHAN, Chair