THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2889
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO EXCESSIVE NOISE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Act 63, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, is amended by amending sections 1 and 2 to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. (a) The department of transportation, in conjunction with any county having a population greater than five hundred thousand, [shall develop and implement a pilot] may establish a program to use noise detection traffic cameras to address excessive traffic noise in urban areas of each participating county.

(b) The department of transportation shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2025.

SECTION 2. [There is appropriated out of the state highway fund the sum of $2,500,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2023- 2024 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2024-2025 for the purposes of this Act. The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of transportation for the purposes of this Act.] Repealed."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2050.

Report Title:

DOT; Noise Traffic Pilot Program; State Highway Fund

Description:

Allows the Department of Transportation to establish a Noise Traffic Pilot Program. Takes effect 1/1/2050. (SD1)

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