HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	313
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to fuel tax funds.

 

 

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 of federal funds would cause a violation of federal law or a federal grant agreement[.];

provided that all fuel tax revenues deposited into the state highway fund pursuant to section 248-8 shall be expended in or for the benefit of the county in which the taxes are collected."

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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2019.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Fuel Tax Revenues; State Highway Fund

 

Description:

Requires that fuel tax revenues deposited into the state highway fund be used in and for the county in which the taxes are collected.

 

 

 

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