STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1451-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.R. No. 40

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Transportation, to which was referred H.R. No. 40 entitled:

"HOUSE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE HAWAII CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTION COMMISSION TO DEVELOP VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED REDUCTION STRATEGIES AND MAKE RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Commission to develop vehicle miles traveled reduction strategies and make related recommendations.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Blue Planet Foundation. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development.

Your Committees find that decreasing transportation-related emissions is essential to achieving the State's greenhouse gas reduction goals. Your Committees further find that vehicle miles traveled have increased almost forty percent over the last twenty-five years and, without intervention, are projected to continue to increase. This measure requests the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Commission to develop vehicle miles traveled reduction strategies and make related recommendations.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Requesting the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Commission to collaborate with the Department of Transportation;

(2) Amending its title accordingly; and

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

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 40, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 40, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Transportation,

____________________________ CHRIS TODD, Chair

____________________________ NICOLE E. LOWEN, Chair