Bill Text: HI SB2893 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-13 - The committee on GVO deferred the measure. [SB2893 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2893-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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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 traffic 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 and the environmental impact statement law, subject to 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. The director of transportation may exempt any
state or county project under a ground transportation facilities plan developed
pursuant to section 264-142 from the requirements of:
(1) Chapter
6E; provided that:
(A) The project shall be within a previously disturbed area and shall
not require any excavation of the known soil disturbance greater than
twenty-four inches below grade; and
(B) This exemption shall not apply in historic districts and areas having
a high probability for the presence of archaeological sites or burial sites;
and
(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;
provided further that the project shall have the primary purpose of building protective infrastructure and related appurtenances for pedestrians, bicyclists, and people on other mobility devices by either adding no more than twelve feet in width to any existing hardened travel surface or providing for a new hardened travel surface of no 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 upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Traffic Safety; Department of Transportation; Construction Projects; Exemptions; Historic Preservation; Archeological Review; Environmental Impact Statement Law
Description:
Allows the Director of Transportation to exempt certain ground transportation facility projects from historic preservation review and the environmental impact statement law, subject to certain conditions.
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