STAND. COM. REP. 2039

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2344

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2344 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prevent the State and counties from prohibiting military munitions transfers through interstate vehicle tunnels.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Transportation.

This measure is intended to facilitate the military's practice of transporting explosives through interstate vehicular tunnels that are part of the federal Strategic Highway Network.

Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring the compliance with national safety standards in the transportation of military munitions and explosives.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2344, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2344, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations,

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair