VIDEO: Another state legislative session; another year without lifeguards at Kua Bay.
Once again, state lawmakers failed to pass a bill to appropriate funds for the employment of water safety officers, and purchase lifeguard equipment, at the popular beach at Kekaha Kai State Park.
H.B. 14 passed the House and was advanced by the Senate Committees on Water and Land and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, before the bill died at the Ways and Means Committee without a hearing.
“It doesn’t mean that we’re … going to stop supporting it,” Fire Chief Darren Rosario told Fire Commissioners at a recent meeting, held after the legislative session concluded.