Bill Text: HI HB1080 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Liability Exemptions; Disasters; Care Homes; Schools

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1080 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1080-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  585

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1080

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 1080 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the state's capacity to shelter persons in the event of a disaster by providing expanded exemption from liability to private schools and health care facilities that may be used as shelters.

 

     The Department of Defense and the Disability and Communication Access Board supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests that your Committee on Judiciary further review the new language used to amend Section 128-19, Hawaii Revised Statutes, specifically the proviso in paragraph 128-19,(b),(2).  It was unclear from the testimony presented exactly what this proviso was meant to do or why it was only placed in the paragraph regarding health care facilities.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1080 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

 

 

		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair