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Senate committees advance package of fireworks bills setting inspections, permit caps and stronger penalties
Summary
Joint Senate committees on Feb. 5 advanced multiple fireworks bills: they passed SB 12‑26 (shipping‑container inspection program) and SB 13‑24 (heightened penalties and adjudication changes) with amendments, passed SB 302 with a five‑permit cap, advanced enforcement funding bills and deferred one measure for further review.
The Hawaii State Senate’s joint committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and on Transportation and the Culture and the Arts advanced a suite of bills on Feb. 5 aimed at tightening oversight, inspections and penalties for illegal fireworks.
Chair Lee moved and the committees voted to pass SB 12‑26 with amendments to establish a shipping‑container inspection program for fireworks, remove the word “explosives” from provisions at the Attorney General’s recommendation, require risk‑based and random inspections, task the Department of Law Enforcement (DLE) and Department of Transportation (DOT) to identify secure off‑port inspection sites and set the program to begin as soon as practicable but no later than July 1, 2027. “We would have to take the point … we want to become the lead state agency,” said Mike Lambert, director nominee for the Department of Law…
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