Bill Text: HI SB382 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: County Fuel Tax

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-20 - The committee(s) on TRN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB382 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB382-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 823

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 382

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 382 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FUEL TAX REVENUES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide resources for the improvement of private roads accessed by the general public.

 

Specifically, this measure authorizes the County of Hawaii to use fuel tax revenues for the maintenance of substandard private subdivision roads that are used by the public.

 

     The Department of Public Works, County of Kauai, submitted written comments in support of this measure, if amended.

 

     Written comments in opposition to this measure were submitted by a concerned individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that while private subdivision roads are not under government jurisdiction, they can nonetheless be heavily used by residents, visitors, and emergency vehicles in certain areas of the County of Hawaii.  Although these roads are accessed by the general public, they are maintained by private citizens or not maintained at all, presenting serious safety concerns.  This measure provides the County of Hawaii the flexibility to use fuel tax revenues to improve private subdivision road conditions for all users.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on this measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

 

     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 S.B. No. 382, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 382, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair