STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2602

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3119

       S.D. 2

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. 3119, S.D. 1, 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 make an emergency appropriation out of the state highway fund for fiscal year 2007-2008 to the Department of Transportation for the state highway system.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, the Hawaii Building and Construction Trades Council, and the Hawaii Transportation Association.

     Your Committee finds that this emergency appropriation is necessary to cover the rising costs of operating and maintaining the state highway system in fiscal year 2007-2008.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by expanding the breakout of appropriations by program in section 4.

     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. 3119, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3119, S.D. 2.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair