STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2789

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3234

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2026

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3234, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate an unspecified sum out of the safe routes to school program special fund to install all-way crosswalks at sites abutting school properties.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Department of Education, Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization, Hawaii Bicycling League, Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition Keiki to Kupuna Program, and one individual.

Your Committee recognizes that schoolchildren are often vulnerable as pedestrians. Your Committee believes that all-way crosswalks near schools will help keep schoolchildren safe by offering increased visibility and clear rights-of-way.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making the state highway fund the source of funding for the appropriation.

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

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair