STAND. COM. REP. NO.  287-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2521

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.B. No. 2521 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAZARDS TO PROPERTY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect public health and safety by appropriating funds to be expended by State Civil Defense for the removal of dangerous trees or branches on private property that pose a hazard, as currently authorized pursuant to section 128-10.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the mitigation of hazardous situations.

State Civil Defense and several concerned individuals supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by expanding its scope to allow the use of the appropriated funds for other purposes currently authorized pursuant to section 128-10.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, namely, to stabilize or remove unstable rock or soil hazards, and to clean streams and waterways to mitigate or prevent flooding or other disasters.

     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 Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2521, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2521, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair