Bill Text: HI SB258 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Fire Protection; Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB258 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB258-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 87

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 258

 

 

 

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. 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 a Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund, into which shall be deposited all monies collected by the State Fire Council from the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program.

 

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

 

     Under this measure, monies in the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund will be administered and expended by the State Fire Council to defray the actual cost of activities and requirements of certification of reduced ignition propensity cigarettes.

 

     Your Committee finds that the establishment of the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund is necessary for the State Fire Council to meet staffing needs for the administration of the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program.  Your Committee further finds that since the Program's implementation in 2009, approximately $370,000 in regulatory fees have been collected – monies that should be used to hire an Administrator and Assistant for the Program to perform the duties specified in this measure.

 

     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. 258 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair