STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1318-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 3002

S.D. 1

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 Human Services and Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 3002, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TASK FORCE ON MOBILITY MANAGEMENT, ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO ACT 214, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2013,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Transportation to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Mobility Management, established pursuant to Act 214, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, in consultation with the Aging and Disability Resource Center of the Executive Office on Aging and other stakeholder groups.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Executive Office on Aging; Disability and Communication Access Board; State Council on Developmental Disabilities; AARP Hawaiʻi; National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii; Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization; and five individuals. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services and Department of Transportation.

Your Committees find that Act 214, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, established a statewide Task Force on Mobility Management within the Department of Health. Your Committees further find that this Task Force's final report addressed the need for the development and establishment of a Mobility Management Program, where a single entity in a geographical area is charged with knowing and deploying the entire array of transportation resources available. Your Committees recognize that there remains a strong need for mobility management in the State and believes that implementing the recommendations made by the Task Force is critical to meeting the transportation needs of the State's disabled and elderly population.

However, your Committees note the concerns raised in testimony by the Department of Transportation, commenting that establishing the Statewide Outreach and Coordinator positions within the Department may not be effective, given that transit services are predominantly administered at the county level. Your Committees discussed who may be the most appropriate entity to assume responsibility for coordination and planning of the recommendations made by the Task Force on Mobility Management and find that the Disability and Communication Access Board may be the most appropriate agency.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Changing its 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 records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3002, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3002, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Transportation,

____________________________ CHRIS TODD, Chair

____________________________ LISA MARTEN, Chair