Bill Text: HI SB479 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Statewide Transportation Planning; Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-17 - Act 012, 4/16/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1112). [SB479 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB479-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 84

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 479

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 479 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MEMBERSHIP OF A METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the number of members of the Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Committee from thirteen to fourteen.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; Office of the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu; Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu; and one individual.

 

     According to testimony of the Department of Transportation, the amendment to the composition of the Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Committee is required by federal law pursuant to Public Law 112-141, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act.

 

     Your Committee finds that in the coming years, Honolulu's mass transit system will be an integral component of the county's transportation infrastructure.  The Executive Director of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, or the director of an authority for rapid/mass transportation on any island, will have an important role in contributing to planning and implementation of the Metropolitan Planning Organization's major programs.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying, on the recommendation of the Director of Transportation, that the additional member shall be the director of the authority for rapid/mass transportation, or successor agency thereof, that operates public transportation on that island.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 479, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 479, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and International Affairs,

 

		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair