Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.R. No. 22 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Transportation and the Executive Office on Aging to collaborate on providing transportation to seniors and to visually impaired persons, and to express the Legislature's support for federal legislation to provide funding for the Independent Transportation Network for a five-year national roll-out and grants.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Executive Office on Aging.

Your Committee finds that the elderly and visually impaired population need safe access to and from their activities of daily living. This basic transportation service can vastly improve the quality of life for these individuals by giving them access to doctors, shopping, family visits, and entertainment.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 22 and recommends its adoption.