Bill Text: HI HB369 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Fire Safety; Residential Kitchen Fire Task Force

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2013-04-17 - Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 700). [HB369 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB369-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 943

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 369

       H.D. 3

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 369, H.D. 3, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Establish a Residential Kitchen Fire Task Force to review data, insurance rating plans and methodology, financial incentives for voluntary pre-mitigation systems, and regulations regarding residential kitchen fires; and

 

     (2)  Require the Residential Kitchen Fire Task Force to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Legislature.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, State Fire Council, and Plumbers and Fitters Union, Local 675.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Building Industry Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that it is in the interest of the State to enhance public safety by encouraging the voluntary installation of fire suppression systems to reduce the occurrence and severity of residential kitchen fires.  This measure is necessary to establish a task force to evaluate issues and concerns regarding fire protection measures that can be taken to protect Hawaii's residents from kitchen fires, which devastate property and cause injuries or death.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 369, H.D. 3, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 369, H.D. 3, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

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

 

		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair