STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1224-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 2747

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 2747, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AIRCRAFT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Transportation to adopt rules requiring tour aircraft operators maintain minimum aircraft liability insurance coverage.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Association for Justice and Blue Hawaiian. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Jack Harter Helicopters.

Your Committee finds that establishing minimum aircraft liability insurance coverage requirements for tour aircraft operations will enhance and incentivize safety in the State's tour aircraft operator industry.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2747, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2747, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair