STAND

STAND. COM. REP. 101

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1233

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1233 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IMPACT FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Allow the counties to assess impact fees for the state to fund state highway improvements; and

(2) Establish the Highway Development Special Fund into which these impact fees shall be deposited and to be used, in part, for the capital costs of state highway improvements.

The Department of Transportation, Estate of James Campbell, and Land Use Research Foundation testified in support of this measure.

Impact fees are a type of assessment on proposed development used to incrementally fund a fair share of public capital improvements needed to serve that development. Your Committee finds that one county has already adopted ordinances to assess impact fees to help pay for state highway improvements. Through this collaborative effort with the counties and private sector, the State has been able to increase the efficiency of highway capital improvement projects for new developments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1233 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

		____________________________ JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair