STAND. COM. REP. 2964

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2523

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 2523, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to change the passenger facility charge revenue fund to a special fund, and to exempt the fund from the assessment for central service expenses and administrative expenses, and from deposits into the airport revenue fund.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Transportation and Airlines Committee of Hawaii.

According to the justification sheet attached to the original measure, this is a housekeeping measure intended for clarification. The passenger facility charge revenue fund was created by Act 213, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003 (codified as section 261-5.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes) for the specific purpose of prohibiting expenditure of passenger facility charge revenues for other than approved projects. Expenditures for central services and administrative expenses are prohibited under 14 Code of Federal Regulations §158.13, which specifies that moneys be used only to finance approved projects.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2523, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations,

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair