STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3339

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2626

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2626, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make the passage from home to school safer for children.

 

     More specifically, this measure promotes and makes walking and bicycling to school safer by permanently establishing the safe routes to school program within the Department of Transportation.

 

     Written comments on this measure were submitted by the Department of Budget and Finance.

 

     Your Committee finds that thirty-eight schools in the State have safe routes to school programs that are extremely successful in increasing the number of children walking and biking to school.  This measure will make the safe routes to school program permanent and available to children throughout the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the 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 H.B. No. 2626, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2626, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair