Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1274, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to maintain a balance between the number of qualified pilots and the need for their services.

Your Committee finds that the present licensing system for pilots is inefficient, and that pilots have been tested and licensed when there were no available positions. For the past twenty years, the need for harbor pilots has remained static with a personnel count of nine pilots.

This bill returns the licensing practice for pilots to the previous procedure, by which pilots are tested and licensed by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs only on the basis of need, rather than the open testing and licensing

Which was recently adopted.

Testimonies in support of this measure were received from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the Hawaii Pilots Association, Fairway Navigation, Inc., the President of which is a licensed pilot, and two other active licensed pilots.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1274, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.