STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2150
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 3119
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 Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3119 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $21,253,032 out of the State Highway Fund for fiscal year 2007-2008 as an emergency appropriation to be expended by the Department of Transportation for the state highway system.
Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Transportation and the Hawaii Transportation Association.
Your Committee finds that during the 2007 regular legislative session, the Legislature increased the revenues deposited into the State Highway Fund by approximately $21,200,000 for fiscal year 2007-2008 by extending the $3 per day rental vehicle surcharge tax and increasing the fuel tax on gasoline and diesel oil by $.01 per gallon. Your Committee further finds that while the Legislature increased the revenues, the authority to expend the moneys was not requested by the Administration. This measure would address that oversight.
Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3119, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3119, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and International Affairs,
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____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair |
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