STAND. COM. REP. 958

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1404

S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 1404, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IMPACT FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Allow the counties to assess impact fees for the State to fund state highway improvements; and

(2) Establish the Highway Development Special Fund into which these impact fees shall be deposited and to be used, in part, for the capital costs of state highway improvements.

The Department of Transportation (DOT), Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu, and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.

Impact fees are a type of assessment on proposed developments used to incrementally fund a fair share of capital improvements needed to serve such developments. According to DOT, one county has already adopted ordinances to help pay for state highway improvements through the collection of impact fees. Your Committee finds that through this collaborative effort between the State, counties, and private sector, the State has been able to increase the efficiency and timeliness of highway improvement projects for new developments.

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. 1404, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

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JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair