STAND. COM. REP. NO. 57-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2246

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2246 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE HIGHWAY ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM SURCHARGE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the state highway enforcement program surcharge from $200 to an unspecified amount.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and one member of the Hawai‘i County Council. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that the state highway enforcement program surcharge was established to address illegal parking and other violations on state highways, with revenues going to the State Highway Fund and respective police departments of the county from which the surcharge was collected. Increasing the surcharge will provide additional resources to state and county law enforcement agencies to enforce parking violations and improve safety along state highways.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

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 H.B. No. 2246, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2246, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair