STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2957

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2086

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2086, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to update the statewide transportation plan process to include the creation of a Hawaii household transportation survey, and to direct the counties and Department of Transportation to create mode share targets and plans to be included in the statewide transportation plan.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Office of Economic Development of the County of Kauai, City and County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services, Blue Planet Foundation, Hawaiian Electric Vehicle Network, Bikeshare Hawaii, and Ulupono Initiative.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

     Your Committees find that Hawaii has a high dependence on the personal automobile and, concomitantly, imported fossil fuels.  This dependence costs Hawaii's economy billions of dollars each year; increases household transportation costs for Hawaii's families; decreases access to job opportunities for low income individuals; leads to increased traffic congestion that costs Hawaii's residents time and money; and degrades overall quality of life for Hawaii's residents.

 

     Your Committees further find that increasing multi-modal transportation options in Hawaii's communities will help increase the availability and utilization of non-automobile modes of transportation, reduce transportation energy use, and reduce household transportation costs while increasing mobility and transportation equity for Hawaii residents.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2086, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2086, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Energy and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

 

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair