STAND. COM. REP. 3007

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2291

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations and Tourism, to which was referred H.B. No. 2291, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide further rent relief to airport concessionaires.

Your Committee deleted the contents of this measure and inserted provisions for an S.D. 1, which was made available to the public ahead of time.

The purpose of the amended measure is to allocate up to $9 million annually for the police department in any county with a population in excess of 500,000 to establish and operate a highway patrol division.

Testimony in support of the amended measure was received from the Department of Transportation and Honolulu Police Department.

The intent of this measure is to enhance traffic enforcement by having a dedicated traffic unit within the police department in the form of a highway patrol, such as mainland jurisdictions have. Although county police departments have road patrol units, the highway patrol would take this to the next level.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring that 100 percent of the appropriated funds be used for the highway patrol; and

(2) Providing that bike officers work exclusively for the highway patrol division except in case of emergencies.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations and Tourism that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2291, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2291, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations and Tourism,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair