Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1408 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Transportation (DOT) to prepare a statewide transportation plan and to establish a statewide transportation committee.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the DOT and Hawaii County Department of Public Works.

This measure revises chapter 279A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to statewide transportation planning, by repealing provisions and enacting new ones to update the statutes to reflect current practices and requirements, including compliance with federal requirements.

The statewide transportation plan would be directed towards the development of a balanced, multi-modal statewide transportation system. The statewide transportation advisory committee, composed of various directors of state and county departments, would assist and advise the DOT in the development of the statewide transportation plan.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adding a representative of the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization to the statewide transportation advisory committee, and making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1408, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1408, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.