STAND. COM. REP. NO.  924-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 3062

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 3062, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to better utilize valuable and limited harbor property and facilities to meet current and future expansion demands at Honolulu Harbor by requiring the Department of Transportation and the University of Hawaii to complete negotiations and execute an agreement to relocate the University of Hawaii Marine Center and having the existing lease terminated if an agreement is not executed by July 1, 2015.

The Department of Transportation testified in support of this measure.  The University of Hawaii System testified in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date from July 1, 2050, to upon approval; and

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

     Your Committee notes that the University of Hawaii has funds available from the Research and Training Revolving Fund that can be considered for implementation toward the relocation of the University of Hawaii Marine Center.

     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. 3062, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3062, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair