STAND. COM. REP. NO.  623

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 983

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 983, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the Commission on Transportation within the Department of Transportation.

The Department of Transportation testified in support of this measure.  A member of the Commission on Transportation testified in opposition to this measure.

     The Commission on Transportation exists in an advisory capacity to the Director of Transportation on matters within the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation.  Your Committee finds that this measure abolishing the Commission will allow the Department of Transportation to streamline its operations.

     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 H.B. No. 983, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair