STAND. COM. REP. NO.907

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1408

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1408, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATEWIDE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Transportation to prepare a new statewide transportation plan.

The bill also requires the Department to establish a statewide transportation advisory committee to assist the Department in developing the plan.

Furthermore, this measure repeals provisions under the statewide transportation planning statutes that deal with the 1978 statewide transportation plan and the statewide transportation council formed to assist the Department with that plan.

Your Committee finds that present statutes are outdated and do not accurately reflect current federal requirements and practices governing plan development and the continuing statewide transportation planning process.

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. 1408, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

____________________________

BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair