Bill Text: HI HB2601 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Transportation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-07-12 - Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 215, 07/10/2018, (Gov. Msg. No. 1324). [HB2601 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-HB2601-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to Transportation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that traffic congestion is a serious problem that negatively affects the quality of life for residents and visitors in Hawaii. Congestion on the State's roadways continues to increase, forcing people to spend more time sitting in vehicles and less time being productive at work or with families and friends.
The legislature also finds that visitors make up a large proportion of public highway users. For example, visitors make up about twenty-five per cent of Maui's population on any given day. These visitors make up a sizeable proportion of those using the island's public highways, and contribute to the congestion that strains Maui's transportation infrastructure.
The legislature believes that it is prudent to target this group of highway users to raise revenue for capital improvements to Hawaii's highways, which will relieve congestion and improve the quality of life for both residents and visitors.
The purpose of this Act is to create a pilot project to use fees from the rental of motor vehicles leased at certain state airports to fund projects to increase highway capacity and relieve traffic congestion.
Specifically, this Act:
(1) Creates a user fee of $4.50 for each day, or portion of a day, that a rental motor vehicle is rented from a rental motor vehicle concession located in a medium-hub airport that serves a county with a resident population of more than 125,000 but less than 195,000 that includes at least three islands inhabited by permanent residents; and
(2) Deposits the fee revenue into the state highway fund; provided that the revenue shall be used to fund certain highway capital projects.
SECTION 2. Chapter 261, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§261- Supplemental rental motor vehicle user fee. (a) Subject to subsection (d), and in addition to a rental motor vehicle customer facility charge authorized by section 261-7(h), the department shall levy, assess, and collect a supplemental rental motor vehicle user fee of $4.50 for each day, or any portion of a day, that a rental motor vehicle is rented or leased from a rental motor vehicle concession; provided that the rental motor vehicle concession is located in a medium-hub airport that serves a county with a resident population of more than 125,000 but less than 195,000 that includes at least three islands inhabited by permanent residents.
(b) The supplemental rental motor vehicle user fee shall be collected by lessors, as defined in section 437D-3, who shall pay the charges collected to the department.
(c) The department shall deposit the revenues collected pursuant to this section into the state highway fund established pursuant to section 248-8.
(d) Upon completion of the projects listed in section 248-9(c), the director shall cease levying, assessing, and collecting the supplemental rental motor vehicle user fee established by subsection (a).
(e) For the purpose of this section, "medium-hub airport" means an airport that is classified as a medium-hub airport by the Federal Aviation Administration's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems."
SECTION 3. Section 248-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§248-9 State highway fund. (a) Moneys in the state highway fund may be expended for the following purposes:
(1) To pay the costs of operation, maintenance, and repair of the state highway system, including without limitation, the cost of equipment and general administrative overhead;
(2) To pay the costs of acquisition (including real property and interests therein), planning, designing, construction, and reconstruction of the state highway system and bikeways, including, without limitation, the cost of equipment and general administrative overhead;
(3) To reimburse the general fund for interest on and principal of general obligation bonds issued to finance highway projects where the bonds are designated to be reimbursable out of the state highway fund; and
(4) To pay the costs of construction, maintenance, and repair of county roads; provided that none of the funds expended on a county road or program shall be federal funds when such expenditure would cause a violation of federal law or a federal grant agreement.
(b) At any time, the director of transportation may transfer from the state highway fund all or any portion of available moneys determined by the director of transportation to exceed one hundred thirty-five per cent of the requirements for the ensuing twelve months for the state highway fund as permitted by and in accordance with section 37-53. For purposes of the determination, the director of transportation shall take into consideration:
(1) The amount of federal funds and bond funds on deposit in, and budgeted to be expended from, the state highway fund during the period;
(2) Amounts on deposit in the state highway fund that are encumbered or otherwise obligated;
(3) Budgeted amounts payable from the state highway fund during the period;
(4) Revenues anticipated to be received by and expenditures to be made from the state highway fund during the period based on existing agreements and other information for the ensuing twelve months; and
(5) Any other factors as the director of transportation shall deem appropriate.
(c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), the department of transportation shall expend revenues generated from the supplemental rental motor vehicle user fee deposited into the state highway fund pursuant to section 261- for the following projects:
(1) The Paia bypass project; and
(2) The Lahaina bypass project;
on the island of Maui."
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2018.
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Report Title:
Highways; Rental Motor Vehicle User Charge; Pilot Project
Description:
Creates a supplemental rental motor vehicle user fee of $4.50 per day to be levied, assessed, and collected for rental motor vehicles rented from a rental motor vehicle concession located in any medium-hub airport serving a county that includes at least 3 islands inhabited by permanent residents. Uses revenues to pay for certain highway projects. Requires the Director of Transportation to cease collecting the supplemental rental motor vehicle fee upon completion of the specified highway projects.
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