STAND. COM. REP. NO 634

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1141

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

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

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that the Department of Transportation can enforce its administrative rules at Kawaihapai Airfield, formerly known as Dillingham Airfield.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and one individual.

     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, who leases Kawaihapai Airfield from the United States, to better manage Kawaihapai Airfield as a general aviation airport.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1141, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair