STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2517

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2627

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 2627 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to the Department of Transportation for construction of a new perimeter fence at Kahului Airport as a safety response to the overpopulation of axis deer in Maui county.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Maui Chamber of Commerce, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that deer overpopulation in the County of Maui has led to a state of emergency.  Around fifty thousand axis deer exist in Maui County and as many as five hundred living near and threatening the safety of Kahului Airport.  Deer entering onto the airport runway is a major safety hazard.  Therefore, the purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation of funds to replace the perimeter fence around the airport.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     Your Committee notes that the construction of a new perimeter fence at Kahalui Airport may be funded in multiple ways and requests that your Committee on Ways and Means examine various funding mechanisms.

 

     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. 2627, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2627, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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CHRIS LEE, Chair