Bill Text: HI SB2954 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Highways; Transfer to Maui

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to TRN, FIN, referral sheet 34 [SB2954 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2954-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2429

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2954

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2954, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSFER OF STATE HIGHWAYS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to create a pilot project to transfer the state highway maintenance functions on Maui, Molokai, and Lanai to the county of Maui.

 

This measure also transfers the applicable funding for maintenance of state highways on Maui from the State to Maui county.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.  The Department of the Attorney General and a member of the Maui City Council submitted comments on this measure.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the pilot project established by this measure will assist in eliminating duplicative highway maintenance functions provided by the State and county, which is of particular importance in light of the current fiscal crisis.  Your Committee further finds that if this pilot project is successful, statewide implementation may be warranted in the future to eliminate duplicative functions of the State and all counties.

 

     Your Committee amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the transfer of applicable funding from the State to Maui county is for the maintenance of state highways on Maui, Molokai, and Lanai;

 

     (2)  Changing the definition of "state highways" to mean highways on the island of Maui, Molokai, and Lanai that are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation, Highways Division, as of December 30, 2010;

 

     (3)  Adding a deadline of January 1, 2011, by which the Department of Transportation shall establish the equitable proportionate funding formula for highway maintenance functions; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2954, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2954, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair