Bill Text: HI HB604 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public Safety; Fire Protection; Novelty Lighters

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB604 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB604-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  552

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 604

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 604 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect public safety by prohibiting the sale or distribution of novelty lighters.

 

     The State Fire Council, Honolulu Fire Department, Department of Fire and Public Safety of the County of Maui, Kauai Fire Department, and County of Hawaii Fire Department testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the prohibition is for the sale and distribution of novelty lighters and not lighters in general;

 

     (2)  Deleting the provision that excludes any lighter manufactured prior to 1980 or any lighter that lacks fuel or a component necessary to produce flame or combustion from the prohibition; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 604, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 604, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair