STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1947-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2619

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2619, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AERONAUTICS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to decriminalize certain minor airport offenses under the State's aeronautics laws and any rules or orders issued pursuant thereto, by replacing criminal penalties with civil penalties.

The Department of Transportation, General Aviation Council of Hawaii, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Air Service Hawaii, and Experimental Aircraft Association testified in support of this measure. The Judiciary provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with the contents of H.B. No. 2590, H.D. 2, a substantially similar measure on which your Committee held a public hearing on March 1, 2018, and recommended for passage. As amended, this measure decriminalizes certain minor airport offenses under the State's aeronautics laws and any rules or orders issued pursuant thereto. However, as amended by your Committee, this measure replaces the criminal penalties with fines and inserts a savings clause.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2619, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2619, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair