Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1478, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purposes of this measure are to grant relief to airport concessionaires who have suffered from the effects of the unforeseen terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and to contract with a single management company for taxi services at the State's airports.

Specifically, this bill requires all public contracts for the operation of concessions at airports in the State to contain force majeure terms to absolve the parties of liability for failure to perform due to outside forces. The bill further requires that the concession for taxi services at the State's airports be granted to a single management company, which may then subcontract with one or more taxi companies to provide taxi services.

Your Committee finds that although airport concessionaires have suffered and should not bear the entire burden of losses due to unforeseen terrorist events, this measure will benefit from more thorough discussion of the effects of inserting force majeure terms into each contract as required by this bill.

For purposes of further discussion, your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2025, and by making other technical nonsubstantive changes.

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. 1478, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1478, S.D. 2.