HB638

Report Title:

Transportation; Counties; Funds for Transit Systems

Description:

Allows the State Highway Fund to be used to pay for county transit systems and their associated costs.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	638
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

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[.]; and

(5) To pay the costs of improving or augmenting county transit systems, including bus services and associated costs such as bus shelters and benches."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.

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