STAND. COM. REP. NO.1198

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1230

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1230, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure as received by your Committee was to authorize the Department of Transportation (DOT) to collect passenger facility charges (PFC) and to establish the PFC special fund.

Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee prepared a proposed S.D. 1 version to replace the measure's original contents with provisions to appropriate emergency funds for the DOT to institute more stringent security measures at harbors and airports throughout the State in light of the Iraq war.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the proposed S.D. 1 version of this measure from the DOT and a Maui County Council member.

Your Committee finds that with war breaking out in the Middle East and the terror threat designation raised to orange, it is vital to provide our state agencies with the funds necessary to protect the citizens of the State.

In addition, your Committee further amended this measure to appropriate funds for fiscal year 2003-2004 for various capital improvement projects for harbor and airport facilities, as reflected in the measure. The DOT requested the specific items and position counts for funding, and your Committee agrees that those items require funding.

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. 1230, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1230, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, 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