STAND. COM. REP. NO. 103

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1214

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1214 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the Commission on Transportation in the Department of Transportation.

 

     Your committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from the State Commission on Transportation and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Commission on Transportation, created in 1961 as an advisory committee to the Department of Transportation, is no longer necessary.  The only statutory function of the Commission is to sit in an advisory capacity to the Director of Transportation on matters within the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation.  Repeal of the Commission is intended to streamline the operations of the Department of Transportation without negative impact to the public.

 

     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. 1214 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