STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1023-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2488

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 2488, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve pedestrian and vehicular safety by authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriating the bond revenues for a traffic signal capital improvement project in Kihei, Maui.

The Department of Transportation testified in opposition to this measure.  The Office of Planning commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2040, to encourage further discussion; and

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

     Your Committee notes that the Department of Education, as part of its Land Use District Boundary amendment conditions for the proposed Kihei High School that were approved by the State Land Use Commission on July 29, 2013, received the necessary appropriated funds for development and is required to install a traffic signal system at the intersection, update the traffic impact analysis report, complete a pedestrian route study, and implement mitigation or improvements as recommended in the traffic impact analysis report and pedestrian study in accordance with the Department of Transportation's requirements. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2488, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2488, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair