Report Title:

Highway Fund; Bikeways and Walkways

Description:

Increases the State Highway Fund's allotment and expenditure for bikeways to five per cent of federally eligible moneys and requires that five per cent of the Fund's moneys expended for the construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads be used to improve county walkways to enhance pedestrian use and access.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	496
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 248-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  Moneys in the state highway fund may be expended for the following purposes:

     (1)  To pay the costs of operation, maintenance, and repair of the state highway system, including without limitation, the cost of equipment and general administrative overhead;

     (2)  To pay the costs of acquisition (including real property and interests therein), planning, designing, construction, and reconstruction of the state highway system and bikeways, including, without limitation, the cost of equipment and general administrative overhead; provided that the director of transportation shall allot and expend [two] five per cent of federally eligible moneys in the state highway fund for bikeways;

     (3)  To reimburse the general fund for interest on and principal of general obligation bonds issued to finance highway projects where the bonds are designated to be reimbursable out of the state highway fund; and

     (4)  To pay the costs of construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads; provided that of such funds, at least five per cent shall be allotted and expended to improve county walkways to enhance pedestrian use and access; provided further that none of the funds expended on a county road or program shall be federal funds when such expenditure would cause a violation of federal law or a federal grant agreement."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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