STAND. COM. REP. NO.  353-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2023

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 2023 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CIVIL DEFENSE AND EMERGENCY ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to give immunity from liability to a person or organization who voluntarily offers the use of the person's or organization's property to shelter people from a natural or man-made disaster.

 

     The Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii State Civil Defense opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee notes there is no reason to amend section 128-19, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), because Chapter 128 already applies to natural and man-made disasters.  By specifically including natural and man-made disasters in section 128-19, HRS, there is a potential for excluding them from the rest of the chapter.

 

     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. 2023 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