STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2067-26

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2026

RE: S.B. No. 3234

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2026

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3234, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds out of the State Highway Fund, Safe Routes to School Program Special Fund, and general revenues to the Department of Transportation to install eligible pedestrian safety improvements at sites abutting school properties, with consideration for other sites.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; Department of Education; Hawaiʻi Public Health Institute; Healthy Eating + Active Living Coalition; Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice; Hawaiʻi Bicycling League; Hawaiʻi Children's Action Network Speaks!; and three individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from Ulupono Initiative and one individual.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3234, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair