STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2108

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2338

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2338 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide rulemaking authority, not subject to approval by the mayor of the county, to semi-autonomous county public transit agencies, including the agency known as the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, to allow them to function as semi-autonomous agencies of their respective counties.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation.

     Your Committee finds that the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation should be extended the same rulemaking authority as currently possessed in statute by the county boards of water supply.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2338 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair