STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1342

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1152

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1152, H.D. 1, S.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 authorize the Governor to make supplemental allotments from the project adjustment fund for airport division capital improvement projects that are currently authorized.  

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

     Your Committee finds that the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2016 established the project adjustment fund.  However, the Act did not establish a corresponding budget proviso to permit the Department of Transportation, Airports Division, to utilize the fund.  This measure adds the language necessary to authorize the Governor to make allotments for airport capital improvement projects that require supplemental funding.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the project adjustment funds may only be used for Department of Transportation, Airports Division, capital improvement projects.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1152, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1152, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair