STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1842-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 3002

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3002, S.D. 1, H.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,"

begs 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 Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Council on Development Disabilities; Disability and Communication Access Board; Hawaii State Committee of Blind Vendors; Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization; AARP Hawaiʻi; National Federation of the Blind of Hawaii; and six individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services; Department of Transportation; and Executive Office on Aging.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the number of full-time equivalent positions to an unspecified number.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3002, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3002, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair