STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2346

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2889

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 2889 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXCESSIVE NOISE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate additional funds to monitor excessive traffic noise in urban areas in the State.

Your Committee received no testimony on this measure.

Your Committee finds that noise pollution, particularly excessive traffic noise, is often cited as an issue in urban areas within the State. Your Committee further finds that, while several bills have been passed, including Act 63, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, more resources are needed to successfully address persistent noise pollution. This measure allows for the implementation of the Noise Detection Traffic Camera Program.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Allowing, rather than requiring, the Department of Transportation to establish a program to use noise detection traffic cameras;

(2) Repealing the appropriation of funds out of the State Highway Fund made for the purposes of Act 63, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023;

(3) Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2889, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2889, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair