STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2781

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2156

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2156 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WEST MAUI TRANSPORTATION ACCESS PLAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to improve transportation access for individuals who need to enter and leave the West Maui area on a daily basis.

     Specifically, this measure creates an informal, temporary West Maui transportation access plan working group within the Department of Transportation to develop a West Maui transportation access plan to address road closures.  The measure also allows the hiring of a consultant without regard to the Hawaii procurement code to develop the plan and appropriates an unspecified amount of funds for the purpose.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc.  The State Procurement Office offered comments.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by inserting a provision to terminate the temporary West Maui Transportation Access Plan Working Group on June 30, 2009, to assist the Legislature with matters that may arise after the working group submits its report prior to the convening of the 2009 regular session.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2156, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2156, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair