Report Title:

Flexible Highway Design

Description:

Makes flexible highway design applicable to Koolau Loa Coastal Highway from Kaaawa to Waimea on Oahu, and to Lower Puna to Kapoho Coastal Road on the island of Hawaii.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1559
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO HIGHWAYS.

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

     SECTION 1.  Act 185, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, as amended by Act 70, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, is amended by amending section 3(b) to read as follows:

"(b)  The director shall establish a process to allow flexible highway design to be considered when designing improvements on the following highways:

(1)  Hana highway, east Maui;

(2)  Hanalei road, north Kauai;

(3)  Hamakua-Honokaa heritage corridor, island of Hawaii;

(4)  Upper Kona road, island of Hawaii; [and]

(5)  Ka Iwi coastal highway, eastern Oahu[.];

(6) Koolau Loa coastal highway from Kaaawa to Waimea, Oahu; and

(7) Lower Puna to Kapoho coastal road, island of Hawaii."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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