Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2321 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help alleviate the traffic demands of a growing population by appropriating funds to establish and implement a permanent intra-island water ferry transportation system.

The Department of Transportation opposed this measure.

A growing population, especially on the Leeward Coast of Oahu, has resulted in an increase in the number of vehicles using our roadways. This increased traffic congestion has resulted in lost revenues, lost productivity, and lost time to spend with families.

Your Committee finds that a solution must be found to this growing problem and that the establishment of a ferry system is one possible solution.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2321, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2321, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.