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. 2267 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) to implement payroll deductions for state employees who wish to buy monthly bus passes from the City and County of Honolulu on a continuing basis.

Oahu Transit Services, Hawaii Government Employees Association, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill. DAGS opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that providing state employees with payroll deductions to buy monthly bus passes would encourage more bus ridership, and therefore be a means of relieving traffic congestion on Hawaii's roads.

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. 2267 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.