STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1069-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2295

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 2295, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require:

(1) The Department of Transportation to plan for a certain amount of sea level rise in all future or amended transportation projects; and

(2) All Department of Transportation projects to conform to certain carbon concrete standards, except in certain circumstances.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Surfrider Foundation and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that the State's public infrastructure is vulnerable to sea level rise, coastal erosion, and other impacts of climate change and extreme weather. This measure will help the State to adapt to the effects of sea level rise, while reducing carbon gas emissions.

Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that all Department of Transportation highway, harbor, and airport projects shall conform to certain carbon concrete standards, except in certain conditions.

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. 2295, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2295, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection.

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

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair