STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3387

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.R. No. 47

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. 47 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO DESIGNATE HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AS THE DANIEL K. INOUYE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Transportation to recognize the significant accomplishments and contributions of the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye by designating the Honolulu International Airport as the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.

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

     Your Committee recognizes that the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye was a heroic veteran, a distinguished member of the United States Senate, and a devoted son of Hawaii.  Your Committee finds that Senator Daniel K. Inouye recognized the importance of a functional state airport system that connected the individual Hawaiian Islands, linked Hawaii to the continental United States, and connected Hawaii globally to the rest of the world.  Your Committee therefore finds that the State should honor and preserve the memory of Senator Daniel K. Inouye's instrumental involvement in developing Honolulu International Airport as the hub of interisland, interstate, and international air travel.

     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. 47 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