STAND. COM. REP. NO. 32

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 415

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 415 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE TASK FORCE ON MOBILITY MANAGEMENT, ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO ACT 214, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2013,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health to implement the recommendations of the statewide Mobility Management Task Force for better mobility management in the State.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities; one member of the Hawai‘i County Council; and AARP Hawai‘i. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds mobility management is an integrated strategic approach in coordinating a full range of mobility services in communities beyond the fixed-route transit services. This measure will support better mobility management in the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the positions in this measure are for full-time equivalent positions; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

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. 415, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 415, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Human Services.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair