STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3385

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.R. No. 28

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.R. No. 28 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON THE FEASIBILITY AND ADVISABILITY OF ADOPTING THE TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION'S SCREENING PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM AND TO MAKE APPROPRIATE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE LEGISLATURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Transportation to conduct a study on the feasibility and advisability of adopting the Screening Partnership Program of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

     Your Committee finds that the TSA's Screening Partnership Program contracts security screening services at commercial airports to qualified private companies, which run screening operations under federal oversight and in compliance with all TSA security screening procedures.  The Screening Partnership Program is intended to ensure that participating airports provide services that meet TSA security and performance standards, while maximizing cost savings for taxpayers.  Your Committee also finds that, as of April 2015, twenty-one airports throughout the United States have joined the Screening Partnership Program.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 28 and recommends its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair