Bill Text: HI HB2673 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Roads.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-03-22 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [HB2673 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2673-Amended.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO ROADS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
Accordingly,
the purpose of this Act is to:
(1) Permit the counties to use county surcharge revenues for the maintenance of public roadways and private roadways that are open to the public; and
(2) Require the counties to use fuel tax revenues for the reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of private roadways that are open to the public.
SECTION 2. Section 46-16.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§46-16.8 County surcharge on state tax. (a) Each county may establish a surcharge on state tax at the rates enumerated in sections 237-8.6 and 238-2.6. A county electing to establish this surcharge shall do so by ordinance; provided that:
(1) No ordinance shall be adopted until the county has conducted a public hearing on the proposed ordinance;
(2) The ordinance shall be adopted before December 31, 2005; and
(3) No county surcharge on state tax that may be authorized under this subsection shall be levied before January 1, 2007, or after December 31, 2022, unless extended pursuant to subsection (b).
Notice of the public hearing required under paragraph (1) shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the county at least twice within a period of thirty days immediately preceding the date of the hearing.
A county electing to exercise the authority granted under this subsection shall notify the director of taxation within ten days after the county has adopted a surcharge on state tax ordinance and, beginning no earlier than January 1, 2007, the director of taxation shall levy, assess, collect, and otherwise administer the county surcharge on state tax.
(b) Each county that has established a surcharge on state tax before July 1, 2015, under authority of subsection (a) may extend the surcharge until December 31, 2030, at the same rates. A county electing to extend this surcharge shall do so by ordinance; provided that:
(1) No ordinance shall be adopted until the county has conducted a public hearing on the proposed ordinance; and
(2) The ordinance shall be adopted before January 1, 2018.
A county electing to exercise the authority granted under this subsection shall notify the director of taxation within ten days after the county has adopted an ordinance extending the surcharge on state tax. The director of taxation shall levy, assess, collect, and otherwise administer the extended surcharge on state tax.
(c) Each county that has not established a surcharge pursuant to subsection (a) on state tax before July 1, 2015, may establish the surcharge at the rates enumerated in sections 237-8.6 and 238-2.6. A county electing to establish this surcharge shall do so by ordinance; provided that:
(1) No ordinance shall be adopted until the county has conducted a public hearing on the proposed ordinance;
(2) The ordinance shall be adopted before December 31, 2023; and
(3) No county surcharge on state tax that may be authorized under this subsection shall be levied before January 1, 2019, or after December 31, 2030.
A county electing to exercise the authority granted under this subsection shall notify the director of taxation within ten days after the county has adopted a surcharge on state tax ordinance. Beginning on January 1, 2019, January 1, 2020, January 1, 2024, or January 1, 2025, as applicable pursuant to sections 237-8.6 and 238-2.6, the director of taxation shall levy, assess, collect, and otherwise administer the county surcharge on state tax.
(d) Each county that has established a surcharge
on state tax before March 31, 2019, under subsection (a) or (c) may amend the
surcharge ordinance to change the authorized uses of surcharge revenues,
pursuant to subsection (g); provided that:
(1) No ordinance shall be amended pursuant to this section until the county has conducted a public hearing on the proposed amendment; and
(2) The ordinance shall be amended before December 31, 2023.
(e) Notice of the public hearing required under subsection (b), (c), or (d), before adoption or amendment of an ordinance establishing or extending the surcharge on state tax shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the county at least twice within a period of thirty days immediately preceding the date of the hearing.
(f) Each county with a population greater than five hundred thousand that adopts or extends a county surcharge on state tax ordinance pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) shall use the surcharge revenues received from the State for capital costs of a locally preferred alternative for a mass transit project; provided that revenues derived from the county surcharge on state tax shall not be used:
(1) To build or repair [public roads or
highways,] bicycle paths[,] or support public transportation systems
already in existence before July 12, 2005;
(2) For operating costs or maintenance costs of the mass transit project or any purpose not consistent with this subsection; or
(3) For administrative or operating, marketing, or maintenance costs, including personnel costs, of a rapid transportation authority charged with the responsibility for constructing, operating, or maintaining the mass transit project;
provided further that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a county from using county funds that are not derived from a surcharge on state tax for a purpose described in paragraph (2) or (3).
(g) Each county having a population equal to or
less than five hundred thousand that adopts a county surcharge on state tax
ordinance pursuant to this section shall use the [surcharges] surcharge
revenues received from the State for:
(1) Operating or capital costs of public transportation within each county for public transportation systems, including:
(A) Public roadways or highways;
(B) Public buses;
(C) Trains;
(D) Ferries;
(E) Pedestrian paths or sidewalks; or
(F) Bicycle paths;
(2) Expenses in complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 with respect to paragraph (1); and
(3) Housing infrastructure; provided that a county that uses surcharge revenues for housing infrastructure shall not pass on those housing infrastructure costs to the developer of a housing project; provided further that this paragraph shall apply only if a county amended its surcharge ordinance pursuant to subsection (d) or adopts a county surcharge on state tax ordinance after December 31, 2022;
provided that each county having a population equal to or less than five hundred thousand that adopts a county surcharge on state tax ordinance pursuant to this section after December 31, 2022, shall use the surcharge revenues received from the State only for the purposes described in paragraph (3).
(h)
In addition to the uses authorized by subsections (f) and (g), each
county that adopts a county surcharge on state tax ordinance pursuant to this
section may use the surcharge revenues received from the State for the
maintenance of public roadways or the maintenance, including flood mitigation, of
privately-owned roadways that are open to the public.
[(h)]
(i) As used in this section:
"Capital costs" means nonrecurring costs required to construct a transit facility or system, including debt service, costs of land acquisition and development, acquiring of rights-of-way, planning, design, and construction, and including equipping and furnishing the facility or system. For a county with a population greater than five hundred thousand, capital costs also include non-recurring personal services and other overhead costs that are not intended to continue after completion of construction of the minimum operable segment of the locally preferred alternative for a mass transit project.
"Housing infrastructure" includes pedestrian paths or sidewalks on a county road near or around a public school, and water, drainage, sewer, water reuse, waste disposal, and waste treatment systems that connect to the infrastructure of the county."
SECTION 3. Section 243-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§243-6 Fuel taxes, dispositions. The "city and county of Honolulu fuel tax" shall be paid by the department of taxation into the state treasury, and shall, by the state director of finance, be paid over to the director of finance of the city and county of Honolulu for deposit into the fund known as the "highway fund" created by section 249-18.
The "county of Kauai fuel tax" shall be paid by the department into the state treasury, and shall, by the state director of finance, be paid over to the director of finance of the county of Kauai for deposit into the fund known as the "highway fund" created by section 249-18.
The "county of Hawaii fuel tax" shall be paid by the department into the state treasury, and shall, by the state director of finance, be paid over to the director of finance of the county of Hawaii for deposit into the fund known as the "highway fund" created by section 249-18.
The
"county of Maui fuel tax" collected on account of liquid fuel sold or
used on the island of Lanai or sold elsewhere for ultimate use on the island of
Lanai[,] shall be paid by the department into the state treasury, and
shall, by the state director of finance, be paid over to the director of
finance of the county of Maui for deposit into the fund known as the
"highway fund" created by section 249-18, for expenditure on the
island of Lanai. The "county of
Maui fuel tax" collected on account of liquid fuel sold or used on the
island of Molokai or sold elsewhere for ultimate use on the island of Molokai[,]
shall be paid by the department into the state treasury, and shall, by the
state director of finance, be paid over to the director of finance of the
county of Maui for deposit into the fund known as the "highway fund"
created by section 249-18, for expenditure on the island of Molokai. The remainder of the "county of Maui
fuel tax" shall be paid by the department into the state treasury, and
shall, by the state director of finance, be paid over to the director of
finance of the county of Maui for deposit into the fund known as the
"highway fund" created by section 249-18.
Each of the foregoing taxes shall be expended for the following purposes, for the island for which the tax revenue is specially indicated, or, if none, for the county for which the tax revenue is indicated:
(1) For payment of interest on and redemption
of any bonds duly issued or sold on or after July 1, 1951, under chapter 47 for
the financing or aiding in financing the construction of county highway
tunnels, approach roads thereto, and highways.
[Such] The payments of interest and principal on the bonds
when due, shall be first charges on [such] the moneys so
deposited in the fund[.];
(2) For acquisition, designing,
construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of county
main and general thoroughfares, highways, and other streets, street lights,
storm drains, and bridges, including costs of new land therefor, when
expenditures for the foregoing purposes cannot be financed under state-federal
aid projects[.];
(3) For reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance, including flood mitigation, of privately-owned roadways that are open to the public;
[(3)] (4) In the case of the city and county of
Honolulu, for payment of the city and county's share in an improvement district
initiated by the city and county for an improvement listed in [[]paragraph[]]
(2) above, which is permitted to be constructed in the city and county[.];
[(4)] (5) For the construction of county highway
tunnels, overpasses, underpasses, and bridges, where [such] the
improvement cannot be made under state-federal aid projects[.];
[(5)] (6) For purposes and functions connected with
county traffic control and preservation of safety upon the public highways and
streets[.];
[(6)] (7) For purposes and functions in connection with
mass transit[.];
[(7)] (8) For acquisition, design, construction,
improvement, repair, and maintenance of bikeways[.]; and
[(8)] (9) No expenditure shall be made, out of the
revenues paid into any such fund, [which] that will jeopardize
federal aid for highway construction."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken. New statutory
material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000.
Report Title:
Privately-owned Roadways; State Tax; County Surcharge; Fuel Tax
Description:
Permits the counties to use county surcharge revenues for maintenance of public roadways and private roadways that are open to the public. Requires the counties to use fuel taxes for reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of private roads that are open to the public. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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