STAND. COM. REP. NO.  870-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2563

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2563, 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 improve traffic flow on Oahu by:

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Transportation to conduct a feasibility study on the construction of an alternative access road into and out of the Leeward Coast of Oahu;

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Transportation to recommend improvements to traffic flow in the Central Oahu corridor;

     (3)  Establishing a Major Accident Investigation Team in counties with a population of 500,000 or more; and

     (4)  Appropriating funds to the Department of Transportation for the purposes of this measure.

The Department of Transportation commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  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 H.B. No. 2563, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2563, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair