STAND. COM. REP. NO. 40

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 143

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor & Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 143 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE REDUCED IGNITION PROPENSITY CIGARETTE PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide for additional uses of the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund to support the State Fire Council and its programs and activities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Fire Council. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that this measure would assist the State Fire Council in fulfilling its mission to develop and support a comprehensive fire service emergency management network for the protection of life, property, and the environment through the use of monies in the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund. Your Committee also finds that the functions of the State Fire Council should be supplemented to mirror the uses being authorized in this measure for monies from the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Adding to the jurisdiction of the State Fire Council those functions that are consistent with the uses being authorized by this measure for the Reduced Ignition Propensity Cigarette Program Special Fund;

(2) Changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

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

Should your Committee on Finance decide to hear this measure, your Committee requests that it consider the additional comments by the Department of the Attorney General concerning expenditures for administrative personnel that are being authorized by this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 143, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 143, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Government Operations,

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SCOT Z. MATAYOSHI, Chair