STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2191

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2353

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2353 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR SECURITY AT HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to the Department of Transportation Airports Division to fund unanticipated costs incurred during fiscal year 2013-2014 for the operations and maintenance of the outbound baggage handling and explosive detection systems at the Honolulu International Airport.

 

     The Department of Transportation and the Airlines Committee of Hawaii submitted testimony in support of this measure.  One individual submitted testimony in opposition of this measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Transportation recently expended security funds for costs associated with the outbound baggage handling and explosive detection system.  This expenditure created a budget shortfall for the Department of Transportation, which now requires an emergency appropriation of $5,000,000 to maintain a TSA-approved security posture at Honolulu International Airport through the remainder of the fiscal year as required by federal regulation.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Transportation to submit a report to the Legislature that includes:

 

     (A)  Detailed security expenditures at state airports during fiscal year 2013-2014;

 

     (B)  Detailed expenditures of the funds that were used by the Department of Transportation during fiscal year 2013-2014, including baggage handling and security contract information, which created the need for the emergency appropriation in this measure; and

 

     (C)  An explanation of the purposes of each expenditure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, 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 H.B. No. 2353, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2353, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair