STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1537-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.R. No. 12

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.R. No. 12 entitled:

"HOUSE RESOLUTION URGING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO PLAN AND IMPLEMENT OPTIONS FOR ALTERNATIVE INGRESS AND EGRESS IN MILILANI MAUKA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to urge the City and County of Honolulu to work with the Department of Transportation to plan and implement options for alternative ingress and egress in Mililani Mauka.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from three individuals.

Your Committee finds that best practices for emergency preparedness require that a community possess more than one evacuation route, as a single ingress and egress route may prevent emergency vehicles from responding in a timely fashion. Your Committee further finds that Mililani Mauka features a single primary ingress and egress route, which leaves its residents vulnerable should that access road be obstructed during a natural disaster. This measure is intended to increase public safety by identifying alternative access routes for Mililani Mauka.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Amending its title in accordance with its amended purpose;

(2) Deleting as unnecessary references to the Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu;

(3) Requesting the City and County of Honolulu to provide a plan for an alternative emergency access road in Mililani Mauka to the Legislature twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025, rather than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2024; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 12, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 12, H.D. 1.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair