STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2313

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2386

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2386 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this Act is to authorize the use of moneys from the state highway fund for the road systems of the counties for fiscal year 2005-2006.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that the State should assist the counties with the costs of construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads. The traveling public should be able to rely upon government to fix and improve roads, without regard to technicalities of ownership between the State and counties. The costs of road work is rising so rapidly that the counties have nowhere to turn for help except the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by codifying it, according to the proper drafting form.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2386, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2386, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Government Operations,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair