STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3170

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2295

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2295, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to ensure that transportation projects in the State are adapted to, and help to mitigate, climate change and sea level rise.

More specifically, this measure:

(1) Requires the Department of Transportation to plan for sea level rise in all future or amended transportation projects; and

(2) Requires all Department of Transportation projects to conform to certain carbon concrete standards, subject to exemptions.

Your Committee received no written comments on this measure.

Your Committee finds that 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 changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

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 S.B. No. 2295, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2295, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair