Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1904 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to increase traffic safety in and around public schools by requiring the Department of Education (DOE) to conduct a traffic study and develop a plan to decrease hazardous traffic conditions at all public schools.

The Department of Transportation (DOT), DOE, Mililani Neighborhood Board No. 25, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.

Many dangerous traffic conditions exist at and around Hawaii's schools. Your Committee finds that while a majority of the problems eliciting concern over these traffic conditions occur at the ingress and egress to schools, other hazardous conditions exist within a school's parking and drop-off areas that further compound the problem. This traffic study is a first step to enhancing student safety and will also have the added benefit of Federal Safer Routes to School Program currently being implemented by DOT.

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. 1904 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.