HI SB2220

Establishes fee schedules for inspections, permits, and examinations of boiler and pressure systems, elevator and kindred equipment, and amusement rides.

Creates a boiler and elevator special fund to receive all fees collected from inspections, permits, examinations, and civil penalties under chapter 397, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Appropriates $1,000,000 from the general fund for fiscal year 2012-2013 as start-up funds to be deposited into the boiler and elevator special fund, with the general fund to be reimbursed within five years.

Addresses the elevator and boiler inspection backlog by allowing use of special fund revenues to hire and retain qualified personnel, as seventy-five percent of elevators and fifty percent of boilers were operating without current permits as of the bill's enactment.

Effective date is July 1, 2012.