STAND. COM. REP. NO. 887

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 261

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 261, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to exempt the rulemaking authority of semi-autonomous county public transit agencies from approval by the Mayor of their respective counties.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the City and County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services.

     In 2010, the voters of the City and County of Honolulu approved a charter amendment to establish a semi-autonomous county public transit authority and charge this authority with the planning, construction, operation, maintenance, expansion, and management of Honolulu's fixed guideway mass transit system, known officially as the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation.  This measure provides the Authority with rulemaking authority to carry out its mandate efficiently and effectively.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon approval.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 261, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 261, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs,

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair