Bill Text: HI SB1154 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To The Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund Comprehensive Loss Reduction Plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-11-30 - Carried over to 2018 Regular Session. [SB1154 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-SB1154-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE HAWAII HURRICANE RELIEF FUND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS REDUCTION PLAN.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the Hawaii hurricane relief fund is responsible for developing a comprehensive loss reduction plan for the hurricane peril that includes standards for residential and commercial structures and a timetable for the implementation of mandatory mitigation measures, pursuant to section 431P-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes.
The legislature further finds that the state building code council, created in 2007, was required to adopt a comprehensive state building code that included the latest editions of nationally recognized building codes and standards for the State of Hawaii. When nationally recognized building codes are updated every three years, the state building code council amends the Hawaii Administrative Rules pertaining to the building code. The process of amending the rules can typically cost between $75,000 and $100,000.
Pursuant to part II of chapter 107, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the state building code council is also responsible for establishing residential and hurricane resistant standards related to loss mitigation standards in accordance with section 431P-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes. However, the staff and operating expenses of the council have never been funded, thus limiting the council's ability to carry out its responsibilities and resulting in existing standards that do not meet federal requirements for receiving post-disaster aid. Specifically, a condition for receiving assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency is that the repair, replacement, or construction of buildings located in hazard-prone areas must at the very least conform to the hazard-resistant standards referenced in the most recent edition of the model building code as of the disaster declaration date.
The legislature also finds that the vulnerability of Hawaii buildings to hurricanes directly affects the insurance industry and the availability and cost of hurricane insurance to property owners. Therefore, mitigation of future hurricane losses has a direct benefit to the sustainability of the Hawaii hurricane relief fund and the housing and commercial real estate markets.
The legislature believes that it is in the State's interest to clarify the relationship between the Hawaii hurricane relief fund and the state building code council to effectively implement the loss mitigation standards relating to the hurricane peril. Clarifying section 431P-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, will allow the Hawaii hurricane relief fund and the state building code council to simultaneously carry out their responsibilities, protect the health and safety of the public, and mitigate future losses from the hurricane peril.
The purpose of this Act is to clarify that the comprehensive loss reduction plan of the Hawaii hurricane relief fund shall include implementing building code requirements for hurricane standards in accordance with state building code and design standards.
SECTION 2. Section 431P-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"[[]§431P-12[]] Mitigation.
The fund shall develop and provide for the implementation of a
comprehensive loss reduction plan for the hurricane peril. The plan shall
include, and the fund shall sponsor, the development and implementation of
state and county building code hurricane standards for new residential and
commercial structures and separate hurricane standards for existing
residential and commercial structures. The plan shall [provide a timetable
for implementation of] include funding to support the adoption of
administrative rules to implement the building code and design standards of part
2 of chapter 107 and to implement mandatory loss mitigation measures for
both new and existing structures."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2017.
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Report Title:
Hawaii Hurricane Relief Fund
Description:
Clarifies that the comprehensive loss reduction plan of the HHRF shall include implementing building code requirements for hurricane standards in accordance with state building code and design standards.
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