STAND. COM. REP. NO. 985

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1152

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Energy, to which was referred H.B. No. 1152, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, AIRPORTS DIVISION, PROJECT ADJUSTMENT FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to add a new section to the General Appropriations Act of 2015 to permit the Department of Transportation to utilize the Department of Transportation, Airports Division, Project Adjustment Fund.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to authorize the Governor to make supplemental allotments from the project adjustment fund to supplement any currently authorized capital investment cost elements for Airports Division capital improvement projects.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the deadline for the Governor to report to the Legislature from thirty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2017 to thirty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2018; and

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Energy that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1152, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1152, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair