STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1105-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 3242

S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 3242, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require certain departments and county transportation agencies to define, regularly identify, and address high-risk and dangerous corridors and intersections; and

(2) Authorize the Department of Transportation and counties to reduce the maximum speed limit within one mile of a school without first conducting an engineering study.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization; Hawaiʻi Bicycling League; and two individuals.

Your Committee finds that regularly identifying high-risk or dangerous corridors or intersections and implementing solutions to mitigate the risk these areas pose will ensure greater safety for all users of the State's roadways.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Specifying that the provision requiring departments to define, regularly identify, and address high-risk and dangerous corridors and intersections is limited to the Department of Transportation;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) 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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3242, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3242, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

____________________________

CHRIS TODD, Chair