STAND. COM. REP. NO. 169

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1233

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 1233 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A FEDERAL INSPECTION STATION AT KONA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation for a federal inspection station at Kona International Airport.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; Hawaii Tourism Authority; Office of the Mayor, County of Hawai‘i; ILWU Local 142; Hawaiian Airlines; Airlines Committee of Hawaii; and two individuals.

     Your Committee finds that a new building, to serve as a federal inspection station at Kona International Airport, will replace a structure that no longer meets United States Customs and Border Protection technical standards, and will provide the State with a second international port of entry.  Another port of entry will significantly increase the State's ability to respond to growth in international arrivals.

     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 S.B. No. 1233 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair