Bill Text: HI SB898 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Liability Exemptions; Disasters; Care Homes; Schools

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-28 - (S) Act 060, 4/25/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 523). [SB898 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB898-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  476-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   S.B. No. 898

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 898, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to encourage private entities to make their facilities available for civil defense efforts during times of emergency by expanding the limitation of liability to include certain care homes and healthcare agencies, and schools.

 

     The State Department of Defense testified in support of this bill.  The Mayor of the County of Hawaii offered an amendment.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by including natural disasters and man-made disasters in the category of events that trigger limited liability for private entities that make their facilities available to the public during times of emergency. Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 898, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 898, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

		____________________________ JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair