Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1679 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to recognize the ahupuaa where Dillingham Airfield is situate by changing its name to Kawaihapai Airfield.

The Department of Transportation testified in support of the intent of the bill. Life of the Land and individuals testified in support of the bill. An individual testified in opposition to the bill.

Your Committee, encouraging further analysis of the ownership status of Dillingham Airfield and concerns of the bill's prematurity, has amended this measure by amending the effective date to July 1, 2020.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1679, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1679, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.