STAND. COM. REP. NO. 40

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1514

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1514 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSFERS FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE STATE HIGHWAY FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to transfer $36.4 million from the general fund to the State Highway Fund in each of the fiscal years 2007-2008 and 2008-2009, and to appropriate those moneys for state highway improvements.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Hawaii Transportation Association.

 

     This measure provides funding to the DOT to continue to operate, maintain, and construct the state highway system, and to continue to improve road quality.  Specifically, the transfers will provide the means for the State Highways Division to implement special maintenance projects to catch up on deferred maintenance in the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 biennium period.  In addition, the transfers allow the DOT to pull down federal matching funds, if any, as applicable.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1514 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and International Affairs,

 

 

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair