Report Title:

Airports; CIP Program

 

Description:

Streamlines the process of implementing the Airports Division's capital improvement program projects by reducing redundant requirements; exempts structures and improvements for security purposes at airports from county special management area permitting requirements. (SD1)

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2306

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to transportation.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States have had a profoundly far reaching impact on air travel in the United States. For a brief time the nation's airports were shut down altogether and since reopening, security at our airports has been much more stringent than ever before. With enactment of the federal Aviation and Transportation Security Act in November, 2001, new security measures are going to continue to be implemented at our airports, in order to protect the public.

The legislature finds that although these new security measures are vitally important, they tend to delay the airport check-in process, partly because existing airport facilities are not properly equipped to implement the measures in a streamlined fashion.

The legislature finds that Hawaii's airport structures should be improved to meet our current security requirements, and that the improvements should be completed as quickly as possible, so that air traffic can return to normal in Hawaii. Since the State relies heavily on air travel, the legislature finds that this issue is of paramount importance.

The purpose of this Act is to streamline the process of implementing capital improvement projects at Hawaii's airports.

SECTION 2. Section 261-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(c) Structures and improvements. [All] Notwithstanding any law or provision to the contrary, all structures and improvements to land[,] to be used for airport purposes[, may]:

(1) May be planned, designed, and constructed by the department[.] without the approval of county agencies; and

(2) Shall be exempt from county agencies' special management areas permitting requirements; provided that the exemption is necessary to comply with federal security requirements, including the Aviation Transportation and Security Act of 2001."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.