STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1000

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1141

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 1141, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Department of Transportation to better manage Kawaihapai Airfield, formerly known as Dillingham Airfield, by clarifying that the Department of Transportation can enforce its administrative rules at Kawaihapai Airfield.

 

     The Department of Transportation testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that current law exempts airports or air navigation facilities owned or operated by the United States from administrative regulation by the Department of Transportation.  This measure would remove that exemption and allow the Department of Transportation, which leases Kawaihapai Airfield from the United States, to better manage Kawaihapai Airfield as a general aviation airport.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1141, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair