HI HCR53

Urges the Department of Education to create a priority list for repairing nonfunctional fire alarm systems in Hawaii's public schools

Requires the Department of Education to submit the priority list along with a repair timeline to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the 2024 Regular Session convenes

Notes that the average age of Hawaii's public school buildings is seventy-two years as of 2022, with approximately twenty percent of the 257 public schools exceeding one hundred years old

Cites examples of fire alarm system failures, including King Intermediate School in Kaneohe lacking a working system for seven years (as of 2017) and Konawaena Elementary School on Hawaii Island having an inoperative system for two years (as of 2022)

References the National Fire Protection Association Life Safety Code (NFPA 101), which requires schools to have functioning fire alarm systems