STAND. COM. REP. NO.  869-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 736

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 736, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the planning, design, and construction of a shared-use pathway, allowing for pedestrian and bicycle traffic, along the mauka section of Kahekili Highway between East Hui Iwa Street and Waihee Road.

 

     KEY Project, Hawaii Bicycling League, Sierra Club of Hawaii, and many individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Transportation testified in opposition of this measure.  Two individuals provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the funding source for the planning, design, and construction of the shared-use pathway from general revenues to general obligation bonds;

 

     (2)  Changing the sums for planning, design, and construction to unspecified amounts; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 736, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 736, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair