Bill Text: HI SB2512 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Emergency Management Powers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-07-09 - Vetoed on 07-09-24 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1362). [SB2512 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2512-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to emergency management powers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. 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:
(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 provisions] provide 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; provided that
the governor shall provide notice to the legislature no less than fourteen days
prior to the date of transfer and shall submit a report to the legislature
within five days of each use of this authority; provided further that the
report shall include the date of transfer, the amount of the transfer, the
program identification from which funds are
transferred, the impacts to the program identifications from which funds are
transferred, and a detailed explanation of the public purpose served by the
transfer of resources; provided further that no later than thirty days prior to
the convening of each regular session, the governor shall submit to the
legislature a summary report containing the aforementioned information for each
use of this authority for the previous twelve-month period from December 1 to
November 30;
(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] the 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) 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] if damage or
loss[;] occurs, and [make temporary restoration of] temporarily
restore public utilities and other critical infrastructure facilities [in
the event of] if an emergency or disaster[;] occurs;
(18) Fix or revise the hours of government business; and
(19) 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 2. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Emergency Management Powers; Disaster Management; Preparedness; Reporting Requirement for Transfer of Funds
Description:
Establishes a reporting requirement for the transfer of public moneys by the Governor, pursuant to the Governor's emergency powers.
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
