Report Title:

Intra-island Water Ferry

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to establish and implement a permanent intra-island water ferry transportation system; raises the minimum age to ride in a pickup bed to eighteen years old. (SD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1640

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

S.D. 1

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

 

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

PART I

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that alternative methods of commuting must be pursued to alleviate the traffic demands of a growing population statewide, but particularly on the island of Oahu. The legislature also finds that Act 221, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, authorized the department of transportation (DOT) to implement an intra-island water ferry transportation system. Subsequently, DOT conducted an intra-island water ferry transportation system demonstration project, that has since ended.

The purpose of this Part is to appropriate funds to establish and implement a permanent intra-island water ferry transportation system that is contingent on collaborative efforts among DOT, the counties, the federal government, and other interested parties from the public and private sectors.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002 to establish and implement a permanent intra-island water ferry transportation system; provided that the department of transportation shall work collaboratively with the counties, the federal government, and other interested parties from the public and private sectors in establishing and implementing the permanent intra-island water ferry transportation system.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of transportation for the purposes of this Part.

PART II

SECTION 3. Section 291-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(c) No operator of any pickup truck may operate the vehicle with any passenger [twelve] seventeen years of age or under in the bed or load-carrying area of the vehicle, unless one of the following applies:

(1) An emergency exists that threatens the life of the passenger being transported in the bed or load-carrying area of the vehicle; or

(2) The vehicle is being operated in parades, caravans, or exhibitions which are officially authorized or otherwise permitted by law."

PART III

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001.