STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1573

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 711

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 711, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for greater efficiency in the movement of passengers through a public transit system by allowing larger articulated buses to operate on public roadways.

     The Hawaii Hotel & Lodging Association, Hawaii Transportation Association, and Soderholm Sales & Leasing, Inc., testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu testified in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to January 1, 2046, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 711, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 711, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair