Bill Text: HI SB1087 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pretax Transportation Benefit; Statewide

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1087 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1087-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 41

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1087

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1087 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PRETAX TRANSPORTATION BENEFIT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Director of Human Resources Development to expand the pretax transportation benefit pilot program in the City and County of Honolulu to all counties of the State and to make the pilot program permanent.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the HGEA.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from the Department of Human Resources Development.

 

     Your Committee finds that the basis of opposition of the Department of Human Resources Development is the expansion of the program to the Neighbor Islands and the consequent costs.  Your Committee is cognizant of the costs, as well as the fact that not all islands may have a bus system.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by restricting the program to islands that have a public transit system, and to employees of the Legislature residing in counties having a population of over 500,000 persons.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1087, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1087, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair