STAND. COM. REP. NO.  366-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2175

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2175 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require any metropolitan planning organization serving a metropolitan planning area within the jurisdiction of a county that includes at least three islands inhabited by permanent residents to include on its policy board one member of the Senate and one member of the House of Representatives.   

 

     No testimony was received on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representative to each appoint an alternate member of the policy board of the metropolitan planning organization; and

 

     (2)  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 Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2175, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2175, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair