Bill Text: HI SB171 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Fireworks

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB171 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB171-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 82

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 171

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 171 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FIREWORKS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make it unlawful to ignite, possess, sell, or otherwise use aerial luminaries, commonly known as sky lanterns, Hawaii lanterns, and flying luminaries, and to define "aerial luminary".

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one state department and one county department.

 

     Your Committee finds that the uncontrolled release of aerial luminaries are potential fire hazards that pose an unacceptable risk of danger to life and property.  Known generically as sky lanterns, the lanterns rise when a flame is lit and can reach altitudes of one thousand feet but are subject to wind conditions.  They can land anywhere, such as on houses, in trees, or on power lines. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 171, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 171, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair