Bill Text: HI HB825 | 2021 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Emergency Powers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-03-15 - Re-Referred to HTH/GVO, JDC/WAM. [HB825 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-HB825-Amended.html
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
825 |
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
H.D. 2 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EMERGENCY POWERS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The
legislature finds that COVID-19 continues to endanger the health, safety, and welfare
of the people of Hawaii. Our response requires
the serious attention, effort, and sacrifice of all people and state agencies to
avert unmanageable strains on our healthcare system and other catastrophic impacts
to the State.
The
legislature further finds that COVID-19 has directly and indirectly caused fiscal
and economic catastrophe not previously experienced by the State and that state
facilities must be fully utilized to serve public need without further costs to
its residents.
The purpose of this Act is to clarify the governor's emergency powers to assume control, use, or operation of any state facility in the furtherance of emergency management at no cost or requirement of compensation.
SECTION 2. Section 127A-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The governor may exercise the following powers pertaining to emergency management:
(1) Support requests from a mayor for assistance in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from any emergency or disaster or threat thereof;
(2) Lease, lend, or
otherwise furnish, on [such] terms and conditions as the governor may
consider necessary to promote the public welfare and protect the interest of
the State, any real or personal property of the state government, to the
President of the United States, the armed forces, or to the emergency
management agency of the United States;
(3) Enter into, participate in, or carry out mutual aid agreements or compacts for emergency management or emergency management functions with the federal government and with other states;
(4) Sponsor and
develop mutual aid plans and agreements for emergency management between the
State, one or more counties, and other governmental, private-sector, and
nonprofit organizations, for the furnishing or exchange of food, clothing,
medicine, and other materials; engineering services; emergency housing; police
services; health, medical, and related services; firefighting, rescue, transportation,
and construction services and facilities; personnel necessary to provide or conduct
these services; and [such] other materials, facilities, personnel, and
services as may be needed. The mutual
aid plans and agreements may be made with or without provisions for reimbursement
of costs and expenses, and on [such] terms and conditions as are deemed
necessary;
(5) Take possession
of, use, manage, control, and reallocate any public property of the State, real
or personal, required by the governor for the purposes of this chapter,
including airports, parks, playgrounds, and schools, and other public
buildings. Whenever the property is so
taken, the governor may make [such] a provision for the temporary
accommodation of the government service affected thereby as the governor may
deem advisable;
(6) Utilize all services, materials, and facilities of nongovernmental agencies, relief organizations, community associations, and other private-sector and nonprofit organizations that may be made available;
(7) Receive, expend, or use contributions or grants, which shall be deemed to be trust funds, in money, property, or services, or loans of property, or special contributions or grants in money, property, or services, or loans of property, for special purposes provided for by this chapter; establish funds in the state treasury for the deposit and expenditure of the moneys; procure federal aid as the same may be available; and apply the provisions of chapter 29 in cases of federal aid, even though not in the form of money. The contributions or grants are appropriated for the purposes of this chapter, or for the special purposes;
(8) Purchase, make,
produce, construct, rent, lease, or procure by condemnation or otherwise[,];
transport, store, install, maintain, and insure[,]; repair, renovate,
restore, replace or reconstruct[,]; and distribute, furnish or
otherwise dispose of, with or without charges, materials and facilities for
emergency management; and to procure federal aid therefor whenever feasible. Chapter 103D and sections 103-50,
103-53, 103-55, 105-1 to 105-10, and 464-4 shall not apply to any emergency management
functions of the governor to the extent that the governor finds that the
provisions, in whole or in part, impede or tend to impede the expeditious discharge
of those functions, or that compliance therewith is impracticable due to
existing conditions;
(9) Provide for the
appointment, employment, training, equipping, and maintaining with
compensation, or on a volunteer basis without compensation and without regard to
chapters 76, 78, and 88, of [such] agencies, officers, and other persons
as the governor deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter; to
determine to what extent any law prohibiting the holding of more than one
office or employment applies to the agencies, officers, and other persons; and
subject to provisions of this chapter, to provide for the interchange of
personnel, by detail, transfer, or otherwise, between agencies or departments
of the State;
(10) Make charges in [such]
cases and in amounts as the governor deems advisable, for any property sold,
work performed, services rendered, or accommodations or facilities furnished by
the State under this chapter;
(11) Make or authorize contracts as may be necessary to carry out this chapter;
(12) Establish special accounting forms and practices whenever necessary;
(13) Require each public utility, or any person owning, controlling, or operating a critical infrastructure facility as identified by the governor, to protect and safeguard its or the person's property, or to provide for the protection and safeguarding thereof; and provide for the protection and safeguarding of all critical infrastructure and key resources; provided that without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing two clauses, the protecting and safeguarding may include the regulation or prohibition of public entry thereon, or the permission of the entry upon terms and conditions as the governor may prescribe;
(14) Restrict the congregation of the public in stricken or dangerous areas or under dangerous conditions;
(15) Direct and control the non-compulsory evacuation of the civilian population;
(16) Order and direct government agencies, officials, officers, and employees of the State, to take action and employ measures for law enforcement, medical, health, firefighting, traffic control, warnings and signals, engineering, rescue, construction, emergency housing, other welfare, hospitalization, transportation, water supply, public information, training, and other emergency functions as may be necessary, and utilize the services, materials, and facilities of the agencies and officers. All agencies and officers shall cooperate with and extend their services, materials, and facilities to the governor as the governor may request;
(17) Assume control,
use, or operation of any state facility as may be necessary to carry out this chapter,
at no cost or requirement of compensation;
[(17)] (18) Provide
for the repair and maintenance of public property, whenever adequate provision therefor
is not otherwise made; insure the property against any emergency or disaster;
provide for the restoration, renovation, replacement, or reconstruction of
insured property in the event of damage or loss; and make temporary restoration
of public utilities and other critical infrastructure facilities in the event
of an emergency or disaster;
[(18)] (19) Fix
or revise the hours of government business; and
[(19)] (20) Take
any and all steps necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this
chapter notwithstanding that those powers in section 127A‑13(a) may
only be exercised during an emergency period."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Emergency Management; Governor; State Facilities
Description:
Specifies
the Governor's emergency powers to include the authority to assume control, use,
or operation of any state facility at no cost or requirement of compensation. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2)
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.