STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1230-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2834

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. 2834, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Rename the State Highway Safety Council as the Transportation Safety and Modernization Council;

(2) Amend the membership of the Council; and

(3) Expand the Council's duties to help the Department of Transportation achieve state goals and outcomes and provide better transparency on transportation safety and modernization.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Ulupono Initiative, Hawai‘i Public Health Institute, and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health and Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that because the State faces many challenges related to transportation, including having among the worst traffic fatality rates in the country, it is critical to address highway safety. Your Committee also notes the importance of maintaining the original intent of the State Highway Safety Council in advising the Governor on matters relating to the state programs and activities in the field of highway safety.

Therefore, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting certain findings;

(2) Deleting language that would have:

(A) Renamed the State Highway Safety Council as the Transportation Safety and Modernization Council;

(B) Specified certain members on the Council;

(C) Expanded the responsibilities and duties of the Council; and

(D) Required the Department of Transportation to provide certain information for the Council;

(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2834, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2834, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair