STAND. COM. REP. NO. 668

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1092

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Government Operations and Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1092 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Department of Accounting and General Services, in collaboration with the Department of Human Resources Development, and in coordination with the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization, to establish, develop, and implement a Comprehensive Transportation Demand Management Program for all state government employees to reduce vehicle emissions and miles traveled by single-occupancy vehicles;

(2) Establish two permanent full-time equivalent (2.0 FTE) Co-Administrator positions, one in the Department of Accounting and General Services and one in the Department of Human Resources Development;

(3) Subsidize public transit and bikeshare passes for state employees;

(4) Authorize incentives for parking opt-out; and

(5) Appropriate funds.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Energy Office; Office of Planning and Sustainable Development; Hawaiʻi Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice; Ulupono Initiative; Hawaiʻi Bicycling League; Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization; and six individuals.

Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development, Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of the Attorney General, and one individual.

Your Committees find that the State aims to reduce vehicle emissions but does not currently offer any compelling incentives to state employees to reduce their reliance on ground transportation, a significant pollutant. By only subsidizing onsite parking, the State implicitly supports the continued use of single-occupancy vehicles. Surveys demonstrate that state employees are open to alternative, cleaner, healthier forms of transportation if offered incentives such as subsidized public transit passes. This measure establishes such incentives through a Comprehensive Transportation Demand Management Program.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring the Department of Transportation, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development, to collaborate with the Department of Accounting and General Services to develop a plan for a Comprehensive Transportation Demand Management Program;

(2) Deleting language that would have required the implementation of a Comprehensive Transportation Demand Management Program;

(3) Inserting language that requires the Department of Accounting and General Services, in coordination with the Department of Transportation, to submit a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2026;

(4) Establishing one permanent full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) Transportation Demand Management Program Co-Administrator position in the Department of Transportation, rather than the Department of Human Resources Development;

(5) Deleting language that would have required the Departments of Accounting and General Services to offer to all state government employees and that would have appropriated funds for:

(A) A full subsidization of public transit and bikeshare passes; and

(B) A financial incentive for employees who opt out of parking;

(6) Replacing the Department of Human Resources Development with the Department of Transportation, as one of the expending agencies of the appropriated funds;

(7) Amending section 1 to reflect its amended purpose;

(8) Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2491, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Government Operations and Transportation and Culture and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1092, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1092, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Government Operations and Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair

________________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair