Bill Text: HI HB312 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vog; Sulfur Dioxide Monitoring

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB312 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB312-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  499

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 312

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Public Safety and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 312 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide better warning of vog events by requiring the Department of Defense (DOD), in consultation with the Department of Health (DOH) and the Interagency Task Force on Vog, to develop and implement a program to ensure that an adequate number of monitors to detect sulfur dioxide are strategically placed throughout areas of the state where high incidences of vog, sulfur dioxide, or both occur.

 

     A member of the Hawaii County Council, Ka'u Farm Bureau, and a concerned individual supported this bill.  The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency supported the intent of this bill.  DOD opposed this measure.  DOH and a member of the Hawaii County Council submitted comments.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 312 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Health,

 

 

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair		____________________________ FAYE HANOHANO, Chair