STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2795

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3022

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3022, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a transportation network company fee.

Specifically, the measure establishes the transportation network company fee and:

(1) Assesses the fee on each ride originated through a transportation network company application; and

(2) Deposits fee revenues into the Safe Routes to School Program special fund.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, Hawaii State Energy Office, Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization, Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization, Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, Hawaii Bicycling League, Ulupono Initiative, and two individuals.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from Uber Technologies.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Taxation and Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that the assessment of a transportation network company fee is an appropriate funding mechanism for the State's Safe Routes to School Program. Your Committee notes that, in its testimony, the Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization recommended depositing into the Safe Routes to Schools Program special fund half of the transportation network company fees collected, and distributing to the counties the remainder of the fees collected.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Amending the purpose section to more accurately reflect the contents of the measure; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 3022, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3022, 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