Bill Text: HI HB1347 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Bill 1347 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Transportation Alternatives; Highway Fund

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1347 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1347-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1347
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 248-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Moneys in the state highway fund may be expended for the following purposes:

(1) To pay the costs of operation, maintenance, and repair of the state highway system, including without limitation, the cost of equipment and general administrative overhead;

(2) To pay the costs of acquisition (including real property and interests therein), planning, designing, construction, and reconstruction of the state highway system [~~and bikeways~~], including, without limitation, the cost of equipment and general administrative overhead;

(3) To reimburse the general fund for interest on and principal of general obligation bonds issued to finance highway projects where the bonds are designated to be reimbursable out of the state highway fund; and

(4) To pay the costs of construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads; provided that none of the funds expended on a county road or program shall be federal funds when such expenditure would cause a violation of federal law or a federal grant agreement[.];

provided that a minimum of ten per cent of moneys expended from the state highway fund for each fiscal biennium shall be used for projects to modify existing highways and infrastructure to fulfill the requirements of section 264-20.5."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Transportation Alternatives; Highway Fund

Description:

Requires at least ten per cent of the moneys expended from the State Highway Fund to be used for projects designed to fulfill the requirements of the complete streets initiative.

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