Bill Text: HI HB2184 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Making An Emergency Appropriation To The Department Of Transportation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-15 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) McKelvey excused (1). [HB2184 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2022-HB2184-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2184
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  This Act is recommended by the governor for immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of article VII of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.

     SECTION 2.  Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, provided $15,000,000 in highways special funds for the highways division's special maintenance program in fiscal year 2021-2022.  This Act will increase the total to $35,000,000 for the special maintenance program in fiscal year 2021-2022.  The highways division's special maintenance program is to preserve the initial capital investment and to prolong the life of the facility.  Traffic, weather, and age are the major causes of the facility deterioration.  The special maintenance program is a systematic maintenance program to prevent further and accelerated deterioration of the highway facility.  The intent of the special maintenance program is to avoid major repairs and to minimize routine maintenance costs.  Since the closing of the 2021 regular session, the state highway fund balance is projected to be greater than anticipated due to passage of Act 237, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, that increases the rental motor vehicle surcharge tax each year by $0.50 from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2027; the state highway fund receiving federal funds of $42,000,000 from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021; and the better than anticipated State of Hawaii economic recovery.  The purpose of this Act is to make an emergency appropriation to the department of transportation to authorize additional funding for the highways division's special maintenance program.

     SECTION 3.  There is appropriated out of the state highway fund the sum of $20,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2021-2022 for the department of transportation to provide funding for highways division's special maintenance program.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of transportation for the purposes of this Act; provided further that the funds appropriated shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year for which it was appropriated, but any unencumbered funds remaining shall lapse on June 30, 2023.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	BY REQUEST

 

 

Report Title:

Emergency appropriation; Department of Transportation; Special Maintenance Program

 

Description:

Makes an emergency appropriation to authorize additional funds for the Department of Transportation Highways Division's special maintenance program.

 

 

 

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