STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1685-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 3010

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3010, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure public safety and to expedite the rehabilitation and replacement of certain state-owned bridges by providing the Department of Transportation, and any of the Department's contractors, with temporary exemptions from certain specified requirements.

 

     General Contractors Association of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Environmental Quality Control of the Department of Health; Office of Planning of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter; and several concerned individuals testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Transportation, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and a concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding the rehabilitation of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Bridge on Kamehameha Highway on the island of Oahu as an additional project exempted from the specified requirements;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2012; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3010, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3010, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair