STAND. COM. REP. NO. 612

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 901

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 901 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AEROSPACE ADVISORY COMMITTEE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to eliminate the requirement that the Governor appoint committee members representing the county economic development boards and the University of Hawaii to the Aerospace Advisory Committee and to instead require those members to be selected directly by the entities they are to represent on the Committee.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

     Your Committees find that the Aerospace Advisory Committee within the Office of Aerospace Development of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism is an effective committee for advising and assisting the Legislature and other state agencies in monitoring, assessing, and promoting aerospace development in the State.  Currently, all members of the Aerospace Advisory Committee are appointed by the Governor and subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.  However, the Advisory Committee would benefit from simpler and more expeditious appointment procedures for its members.  Accordingly, this measure allows county economic development boards and the University of Hawaii to select members to represent them on the Advisory Committee while retaining the Governor's authority to appoint, and the Senate's authority to confirm certain members from the aerospace industry to the Advisory Committee.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 901 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Economic Development, Tourism, and Technology,

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair