STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2111

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2444

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 S.B. No. 2444 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 six individuals.

Your Committee finds that the emergency siren at Palisades Elementary School has been inoperative for several years, and that there have been complaints from the residents living in the Pacific Palisades area that they are unable to hear the emergency siren located at Pearl City High School. Your Committee further finds that a new emergency siren is needed in the area so that residents can be alerted to all civil defense emergencies in a timely manner to take any necessary safety measures. This measure will appropriate funds for the installation of a new outdoor emergency siren in the Pacific Palisades area of Oahu for the safety of residents in that community.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a blank appropriation amount;

(2) Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2042, to encourage further discussion; and

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

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 consider inserting an appropriation amount of $200,000 for fiscal year 2024-2025.

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 S.B. No. 2444, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2444, 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