Bill Text: HI HB1347 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [HB1347 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB1347-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to transportation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
The legislature further finds that it currently takes the State five to seven years to make simple but urgent safety fixes to better protect people. The legislature believes that the State should enable critical safety projects to be implemented faster, and at lower costs, to help save lives.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to increase traffic safety by allowing the director of transportation to exempt certain ground transportation facility projects from historic preservation review, the environmental impact statement law, and the Hawaii public procurement code under certain conditions.
SECTION 2. Chapter 264, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part X to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§264- Traffic
safety; exemptions; historic preservation review; environmental impact
statement law; Hawaii public procurement code. The director of transportation may exempt
any state or county project under a ground transportation facilities plan
developed pursuant to section 264-142 from:
(1) Chapter 6E; provided that the project does not require any excavation greater than twenty-four inches below grade;
(2) Chapter 343; provided that if the project is to be constructed on land that is not directly under the control of the department of transportation, the department of transportation shall obtain a written agreement with the governmental entity or landowner that controls the land on which the project is to be constructed; and
(3) Chapter 103D; provided that the contract
for the project shall not be in excess of $100,000;
provided further that such project has
the primary purpose of building protective infrastructure and related
appurtenances for pedestrians, bicyclists, and people on other mobility devices
by either adding not more the twelve feet in width to any existing hardened
travel surface, or providing for a new hardened travel surface of not more than
twelve feet in width."
SECTION 3. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the Act that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this Act are severable.
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2023.
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Report Title:
Traffic Safety; Department of Transportation; Construction Projects; Exemptions; Historic Preservation; Archeological Review; Environmental Impact Statement Law; Hawaii Public Procurement Code
Description:
Allows the Director of Transportation to exempt certain ground transportation facility projects from historic preservation review, the environmental impact statement law, and the Hawaii public procurement code under certain conditions.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
