Bill Text: HI HB763 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Hawaii State Building Code; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2013-07-09 - Vetoed on 07-08-13 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 1373). [HB763 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB763-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  633

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 763

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 763 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING CODE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to streamline processes associated with the State Building Code Council by:

 

     (1)  Implementing procedures for the adoption and dissemination of uniform amendments made to the Hawaii State Building Code by at least three counties; and

 

     (2)  Amending the membership of the State Building Code Council to include a member of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism with significant experience in elevator or fire safety and the Department of Accounting and General Services with significant experience in building design, and removing members belonging to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and the Department of Health, as well as the Comptroller.

 

     The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism testified in support of this measure.  The Building Industry of Hawaii testified in opposition of this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee notes that because this measure proposes various changes to the membership of the Hawaii State Building Code Council, it is important that the affected parties be given the opportunity to provide their input.  Your Committee encourages further discussion on this measure so the affected parties will have the opportunity to voice concerns they may have and be included in the legislative process.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding one member each from the Building Industry Association of Hawaii, General Contractors Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Construction Alliance, Subcontractors' Association of Hawaii, and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Hawaii State Energy Office, as well as retaining the members from the Department of Health and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, to expand the State Building Code Council to eleven members.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 763, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 763, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

 

 

 

 

____________________________

CINDY EVANS, Chair

 

 

 

 

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