STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3081

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2016

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2016, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the installation of a new outdoor emergency siren in the Pacific Palisades area of Oahu.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Pearl City Neighborhood Board No. 21; and three individuals.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency.

Your Committee finds that there have been complaints that the residents living in the Pacific Palisades area of Oahu are unable to hear the emergency siren located at Pearl City High School, and the emergency siren at Palisades Elementary School has been inoperative for several years. Your Committee notes that it is imperative for communities to be notified of a civil defense emergency in order to take necessary safety measures. This measure will appropriate funds for an emergency siren, which will ensure that residents in the Pacific Palisades area may hear an emergency siren in the event of an emergency.

Your Committee notes that the Senate Draft 1 of this measure contains an unspecified appropriation amount. Should your Committee on Ways and Means choose to deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that it considers inserting an appropriation amount of $200,000 for fiscal year 2024-2025.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2042, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2016, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2016, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair