Bill Text: HI HB1626 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: County Fuel Tax

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [HB1626 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1626-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1242

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1626

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1626, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FUEL TAXES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to temporarily authorize the County of Hawaii to expend a portion of its fuel tax revenues for the maintenance of substandard private subdivision roads that are used by the public.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from Brittany Smart, Council Member, Hawaii County Council, County of Hawaii; M. Eileen O'Hara, Board President, Hawaiian Shores Community Association and Pakaka Road Association; Rob Tucker, President, Friends of Puna's Future; Mary Brewer, President, Volcano Community Association; and seventy-seven individuals.

 

     Your Committee received comments in opposition to this measure from five individuals.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will help the County of Hawaii address a backlog of maintenance created when large substandard private subdivisions were approved decades ago without proper infrastructure, such as roads, water, and sewer.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that, upon the sale of any portion of the private subdivision to an entity other than the State or the County of Hawaii, neither the State nor the County of Hawaii shall be required to install infrastructure for those roads in the portion of the private subdivision that is sold.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1626, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1626, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair