STAND. COM. REP. NO. 631

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 258

       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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 258 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund to defray the costs of administering the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program, including employment of state fire council staff.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from Kenneth G. Silva, Chair, State Fire Council, and Fire Chief, Fire Department, City and County of Honolulu; Jeffrey A. Murray, County of Maui, Department of Fire and Public Safety; and Trisha Y. Nakamura, Esq., Policy and Advocacy Director Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received comments in opposition to this measure from Kalbert Young, Director, Department of Budget and Finance.

 

     Your Committee finds that the State Fire Council needs additional staffing to administer the reduced ignition propensity cigarette program.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 258, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 258, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair