STAND. COM. REP. NO. 404-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2016

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2016 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the installation of a new outdoor emergency siren in the Pacific Palisades area of Oahu in connection with the statewide outdoor siren warning system.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Pearl City Neighborhood Board and two individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency.

Your Committee finds that a new emergency siren is needed in the Pacific Palisades area of Oahu so that residents can be alerted to all civil defense emergencies in a timely manner in order to take any necessary safety measures.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider an appropriation amount of $200,000.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2016, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2016, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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LINDA ICHIYAMA, Chair