STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3515

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 

 

RE:     H.B. No. 2175

        H.D. 1

        S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2175, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that certain metropolitan planning organizations' policy boards include a member of the Senate and a member of the House of Representatives, both of whom shall be residents of the applicable metropolitan planning area.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

 

     Your Committee finds that legislative representation on a metropolitan planning organization's policy board will provide the board with valuable legislative guidance and perspective on transportation policy decisions.

 

     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. 2175, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair