Bill Text: HI SCR15 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Urges Congress to enact legislation that protects air travelers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-04 - (H) Referred to TRN, FIN, referral sheet 59 [SCR15 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR15-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3065

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 15

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 15 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RELATING TO AIRPORT SECURITY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the United States Congress to enact H.R. 2438 or similar legislation that protects the rights of travelers in the nations' airports.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii and two individuals.  Comments were received from one individual.

 

     H.R. 2438 provides that federal employees who provide security screening for airports are not immune from any United States law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person.  Your Committees find that many travelers have found the pat‑down searches conducted by employees of the Transportation Security Administration to be a humiliating experience bordering on physical and emotional abuse, whether imposed in public or private, and that H.R. 2438 would implement some deterrence against potentially inappropriate behavior by federal employees who are subject to this legislation.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 15 and recommend its adoption.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair