STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2799

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2662

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2662 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide a temporary reprieve from lease and permit requirements for airport vendors who wish to make improvements.

Specifically, this bill allows the Department of Transportation to modify terms of concession leases and permits upon mutual agreement with concessions seeking to make improvements, for leases signed after April 30, 2002, and which did not receive rent relief pursuant to Act 201, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004. This bill also requires the Department of Transportation to solicit bids for new leases within twelve months prior to the termination of any lease or permit receiving an extension provided by the bill.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by clarifying that "older" leases or permits for which rent relief terms may be modified, as contained in section 2(3) on page 5, line 9, refer to leases and permits signed before April 30, 2002. Your Committee has also made various other technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2662, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2662, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair