STAND. COM. REP. NO. 338-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2065

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2065 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXCESSIVE NOISE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the appropriation for fiscal year 2024-2025 for the Noise Traffic Pilot Program of the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that excessive noise is a quality of life issue and there is technology available to detect vehicle noise emissions. Act 63, Session Laws of Hawaii 2023, established a pilot program on Oahu to use noise detection traffic cameras to address excessive traffic noise. This measure ensures that the pilot program is sufficiently funded for fiscal year 2024-2025.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) 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 H.B. No. 2065, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2065, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair