STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 331
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2023
RE: H.B. No. 1418
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2023
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1418 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Honolulu Police Department, Ulupono Initiative, AARP Hawai‘i, Cycle on Hawaii, Hawaii‘s Public Health Institute, Hawaii Children's Action Network Speaks!, Elemental Excelerator, Think BIG, Kaiser Permanente Hawai‘i, Hawaii Bicycling League, and eighteen individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Health, and Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu.
Your Committee finds that ensuring the safety of keiki and kupuna protects the State's most vulnerable road users. Your Committee further finds that providing additional funding dedicated specifically to bicycle and pedestrian safety is key to providing safe mobility on the State's roads.
Your Committee notes the testimony of the Department of Transportation that this measure as currently drafted may be duplicative of, and in conflict with, the Department's current efforts in this regard.
Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting the establishment of a Safe Routes for People Implementation Program and Safe Routes for People Implementation Committee;
(2) Deleting the establishment of the Safe Routes for People Special Fund and the appropriation into the special fund;
(3) Making an appropriation of an unspecified amount for the fiscal biennium to the Department of Transportation for bicycle and pedestrian safety;
(4) Changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and
(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider an appropriation amount of $50,000,000.
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. 1418, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1418, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,
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____________________________ CHRIS TODD, Chair |
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