Bill Text: HI SB2887 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Emergency Management.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-05-11 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Thielen excused (1). [SB2887 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-SB2887-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that disaster recovery is a complex and long-term process that involves a range of activities and many participants. Recovery begins shortly after the disaster occurs and can continue for many years. It involves short-term restoration of essential community functions and long-term resilient rebuilding. It also incorporates hazard mitigation as restoration and rebuilding take place.
State,
public, and private organizations share in providing for the public's health
and safety. It is essential that the
response, recovery, and mitigation activities of all parties be fully aligned. The purpose of this Act is to enhance the
capacity of the government, relevant agencies, and the community to recover
from the impacts of disasters and build resilience and sustainability by establishing
the long-term recovery authority to work with the state disaster recovery
coordinator, whose position was funded through the governor's executive budget
in 2019.
SECTION
2. Chapter 127A, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, is amended by adding two new sections to be appropriately designated
and to read as follows:
"§127A- Long-term recovery authority; general
functions, duties, and powers. (a)
There is established the long-term
recovery authority under the Hawaii emergency management agency, whose purpose shall
be to:
(1) Recommend policy
decisions and set strategic direction for resilient recovery planning;
(2) Develop legislative recommendations to
further recovery goals;
(3) Approve administrative decisions of the state
disaster recovery coordinator; and
(4) Facilitate the identification,
coordination, and delivery of recovery assistance to supplement resources and
efforts by local governments and citizens.
(b) The long-term recovery authority shall be
flexible in size and composition to meet the requirements of the situation and
integrate personnel from all relevant entities.
(c) The long-term recovery authority shall be
convened by the state disaster recovery coordinator.
(d) The long-term recovery authority shall
include the following members:
(1) The adjutant general or the adjutant general's
designee;
(2) The administrator of the Hawaii emergency
management agency or the administrator's designee;
(3) The state coordinating officer for active disasters
or the coordinator's designee;
(4) The director of finance or the director's
designee;
(5) The county mayors or their designees; and
(6) The directors of state departments or
agencies that have been designated as primary recovery support function agencies
or the directors' designees.
(e) In addition to the members listed in subsection
(d), the state disaster recovery coordinator may designate participation or
input from members of the public, experts in the field, other government
officials, and others as necessary.
(f) At the discretion of the state disaster
recovery coordinator, non-state government entity members of the long-term recovery
authority may be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses, including
travel expenses, incurred in carrying out their duties.
(g)
The long-term recovery authority shall not
be subject to the requirements of part I of chapter 92.
§127A- State disaster recovery coordinator;
general functions, duties, and powers. The state disaster recovery coordinator shall
report to the governor and support and convene the long-term recovery authority,
and shall:
(1) Establish and maintain recovery priorities
and strategies on behalf of the governor;
(2) Convene and provide executive level
coordination for local, state, and federal agencies working on disaster
recovery programs and budgets;
(3) Facilitate disaster recovery collaboration
between the local, state, and federal governments, the private sector, and
voluntary, faith-based, and community organizations;
(4) Serve as a state point of contact with
federal agencies with the supervising federal recovery officer;
(5) Develop a budget and operating procedures to
fulfill duties and administer the long-term recovery authority; and
(6) Review
recovery plans, policies, and decisions as required by this section and submit
a report to the governor, legislature, and counties no later than twenty days prior
to the convening of the regular session of 2021 and every year thereafter."
SECTION
3. Section 127A-2, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted
and to read as follows:
""Recovery
support functions" means the six key functional areas of assistance in a coordinated
framework for disaster recovery as established by the National Disaster Recovery
Framework Guide implemented by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "Recovery support functions" includes
recovery assistance for community planning and capacity building, the economy, health
and social services, housing, infrastructure, and natural and cultural resources."
SECTION
4. The office of the governor shall
establish two full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) positions, without regard to
chapters 76 and 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to support the state disaster
recovery coordinator and the long-term recovery authority to carry out the purposes
of this Act. The positions shall include
two planners.
SECTION
5. There is appropriated out of the
general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $550,000 or so much thereof
as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the Hawaii emergency
management agency to support the governor's state disaster recovery coordinator
as an operating budget for the purpose of this Act.
The
sum appropriated shall be expended by the office of the governor for the purposes
of this Act.
SECTION
6. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2020.
Report Title:
Emergency Management; Appropriation
Description:
Establishes a Long-term Recovery Authority to work with the State Disaster Recovery Coordinator in enhancing the capacity of the government, relevant agencies, and the community to recover from the impacts of disasters and build resilience and sustainability in the State. Makes an appropriation. (SD1)
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