Bill Text: HI SB2220 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Boiler and Elevator Safety Law; Special Fund; Appropriation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-06-05 - (S) Act 103, 6/1/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1205). [SB2220 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2220-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1581-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: S.B. No. 2220
S.D. 1
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2220, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOILER AND ELEVATOR SAFETY LAW,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to improve public safety by:
(1) Establishing fee schedules for inspections, permits, and examinations of boilers, pressure systems, amusement rides, elevators, and kindred equipment;
(2) Establishing the Boiler and Elevator Special Fund into which will be deposited fees from inspections, permits, and examinations of boilers, pressure systems, amusement rides, elevators, and kindred equipment;
(3) Authorizing the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish permanent positions in the Boiler and Elevator Inspection Branch;
(4) Requiring the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to submit an annual report to the Legislature prior to each regular session, starting with the 2013 Regular Session, on:
(A) The status of the elevator and boiler inspection backlog;
(B) The number of inspections completed for the year; and
(C) The effect the increase in fees and the Boiler and Elevator Special Fund have had on the elevator and boiler inspection backlog;
(5) Appropriating funds for start up funds to be deposited into the Boiler and Elevator Special Fund, with general fund revenues to be paid back and deposited into the general fund within five years of the effective date of this measure; and
(6) Appropriating funds out of the Boiler and Elevator Special Fund for the purposes specified in this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting the specified amounts from the appropriation sections;
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2220, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2220, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair |
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