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Exhibit"A" <br /> . B. NO. <br /> A BILL FOR AN ACT <br /> RELATING TO LIFEGUARDS. <br /> BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII: <br /> 1 SECTION 1 . Act 170, Session. Laws of Hawaii 2007, was <br /> 2 enacted to provide immunity for county lifeguards and the State <br /> 3 and county that employed them from liability against damages <br /> 4 arising from the acts or omissions of lifeguards while rescue, <br /> 5 resuscitative, and other lifeguard duties. Act 170 was intended <br /> 6 to provide the State and counties with qualified immunity so <br /> 7 that lifeguards can be stationed at dangerous beaches, while <br /> 8 appropriately limiting the immunity to acts or omissions <br /> 9 committed while providing rescue or resuscitative actions or <br /> 10 other emergency lifeguard services on the beach. <br /> 11 The Hawaii Tort Law Study Group was established in 1997 by <br /> 12 S.C.R. 256 to study Hawaii' s tort system. Regarding immunity, <br /> 13 the Group reported that "immunity is afforded to classes of <br /> 14 persons or entities because it is in the public' s best interests <br /> 15 to do so, " and conferring immunity upon a particular class of <br /> 16 persons is often based upon whether or not the social values <br />