Bill Text: HI HCR118 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Ziplines; Canopy Tours; Sunrise Review; Auditor

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-26 - (S) Received notice of Adoption in House (Hse. Com. No. 680). [HCR118 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HCR118-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3546

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.C.R. No. 118

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 118, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A SUNRISE REVIEW OF REGULATIONS FOR ZIPLINES AND CANOPY TOURS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Auditor to perform a sunrise review on the regulation of ziplines and canopy tours.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and two individuals.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure requests the Auditor to perform a sunrise review pursuant to section 26H-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, on the regulation of ziplines and canopy tours as proposed in legislation during the Regular Session of 2012.  The Auditor's analysis would set forth the probable effects of the proposed regulatory measure, assess whether its enactment is consistent with section 26H-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and assess alternate forms of regulation.  Your Committees further find that a sunrise review is a necessary step to ensure the safety and security of participants and workers in the State's growing zipline and canopy tour industry.

 

     Your Committees additionally find that section 26H-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, states that a referral to the Auditor for a sunrise analysis shall be by concurrent resolution that identifies a specific legislative bill to be analyzed; however this measure does not identify a specific legislative bill.  Your Committees note that a public hearing was held during the Regular Session of 2012 on Senate Bill No. 2433, S.D. 2, Relating to Challenge Course Technology.  Your Committees conclude that amendments to this measure are necessary to direct the Auditor to analyze Senate Bill No. 2433, S.D. 2.

 

     Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting references to Senate Bill No. 2433, S.D. 2, Regular Session of 2012, and making corresponding clarifying amendments; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 118, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 118, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Economic Development and Technology,

 

____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair