STAND. COM. REP. NO. 26

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 382

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 382 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FUEL TAX REVENUES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to permit the County of Hawaii to appropriate the county's share of fuel tax revenue for the maintenance of substandard private subdivision roads that are used by the public.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Maui County Department of Public Works, Friends of Puna's Future, Marooned Farms LLC, Kopua Farmlots, Hawaiian Shores Community Association, Hawaiian Paradise Park, and numerous individuals.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

     Your Committees find that growing populations served by private subdivision roads present the counties with serious safety and economic concerns.  Although these roads are accessed by the general public, they are maintained by private citizens or not maintained at all, rendering the roads impassable.  This measure would give the County of Hawaii the flexibility to use fuel tax revenue to improve private subdivision road conditions, ensuring the safe passage of residents, visitors, emergency service vehicles, and school buses.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental 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 S.B. No. 382 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair