STAND. COM. REP. NO.  455

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 568

  H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 568 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Governor and the Department of Defense to prepare emergency messages and updates in multiple languages and distribute those messages to media outlets for broadcast during an emergency.  The measure also appropriates moneys for this purpose.

     One individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     The Department of Defense and Radio Station KZOO AM1210 submitted comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has changed the effective date of the appropriation provision of this measure to July 1, 2015 to facilitate further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 568, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form hereto as H.B. No. 568, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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CINDY EVANS, Chair