Report Title:

Transportation; Bikeways

Description:

Earmarks 2% of federally eligible moneys from the state highway fund for bikeways.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	497
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 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 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.  Section 264-18, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     1.  By amending subsection (a) to read:

     "(a)  Out of the state highway fund reasonable amounts shall be expended as necessary by the State [for the establishment of] to establish bikeways.  [Bikeways shall be established,] The State shall establish bikeways, whenever practicable, wherever a highway, road, or street is being constructed, reconstructed, relocated, or rehabilitated[.]; provided that:

(1) At least two per cent of eligible federal moneys shall be expended to establish bike paths and bike lanes in the State's master bicycling plan;

(2) The department of transportation shall include the bicycling community in a public involvement process to determine when and where a bikeway should be established; and

(3) A reasonable and proportional share of highway maintenance funds shall be allocated to maintain bikeways to ensure that safe conditions prevail."

     2.  By amending subsection (d) to read:

     "(d)  As used in this section, the [term] terms "bikeway," "bicycle path," and "bicycle lane" shall have the same meaning as in section 291C-1."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.

INTRODUCED BY:

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