Bill Text: HI HB2708 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 2708 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Statewide Transportation Plan; Public Involvement

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-07-06 - (S) Vetoed on 07-06-10 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 665). [HB2708 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2708-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2714

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2708

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2708, 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 require the Department of Transportation to develop and use a documented public involvement process that provides opportunities for public review and comment, to be applied in carrying out the statewide transportation planning process, including development of all state transportation projects within the statewide transportation plan.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities. Comments on this measure were received from the Department of Transportation. Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

Your Committee finds that public input into the statewide transportation planning process facilitates the requirements of section 279A-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the development of a statewide transportation plan for a balanced, multi‑modal statewide transportation system that serves clearly identified social, economic, and environmental objectives. Your Committee further finds that the needs of bicyclists, pedestrians, and persons with disabilities should be accommodated into transportation modalities as much as possible.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon approval.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2708, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2708, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair