STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2046

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2340

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2340 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Transportation to report to the Legislature on providing the best and most modern security technology at Hawaii's harbors and airports to detect and prevent terrorist activity.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from one individual.  Testimony in opposition was submitted by the State Department of Transportation.

 

     Your Committees find that the department of transportation will realize cost savings with greater security by implementing the best and most modern security technology, including video surveillance, access control systems, sensors, motion detectors, radar, sonar, and other systems and technologies.  Security is particularly important to protect the tourism industry from the impacts of terroristic activity.

 

     Your Committees are mindful that sensitive information should not be put out for public viewing for fear of alerting would-be saboteurs.  Testimony indicated that the Department of Transportation has up-to-date information on the state of security at harbors and airports and would be willing to share this information in private with lawmakers.  However, your Committees believe that this issue is important enough to warrant a public report.  Your Committees trust that the Department of Transportation can protect sensitive information in that reporting process.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2340 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair