Bill Text: HI SB957 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Mobility Management.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [SB957 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB957-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to Mobility Management.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The
legislature finds that Act 214, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, established a task force on mobility management
within the department of health. The
task force was required to make recommendations on establishing a
transportation framework to assist elders and individuals with disabilities
with transportation needs in each county, including recommendations relating to
the state budget and program development.
The legislature further finds that Hawaii's
residents, including elders and individuals with disabilities, should be able
to live at home with the supports they need so that they can participate in communities that value
their contributions. Additionally, many
residents statewide, especially in rural communities, are without family
members nearby to provide transportation and are too frail or disabled to
access public transit. Transportation
services are often fragmented, underutilized, or difficult to navigate and can
be costly because of inconsistent, duplicative, and often restrictive federal
and state program rules and regulations.
Due to these circumstances, there is a need for a policy on mobility
management, a concept in which a single entity in a geographical area is
charged with knowing and deploying the entire array of available transportation
resources. This system would focus on
the individual and identify the best practices.
The legislature further finds that the
recommendations described in the task force on mobility management's statewide
mobility management report, submitted to the twenty-eighth legislature, have
yet to be implemented. Accordingly, the
purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to the department of health to
implement the recommendations of the task
force on mobility management.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2023-2024 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2024-2025 for the implementation of the recommendations of the task force on mobility management, as described in the task force's 2015 statewide mobility management report, including funding of the following positions:
(1) One mobility manager in each of the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui;
(2) One statewide outreach position; and
(3) One statewide coordinator.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2023.
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Report Title:
Mobility Management; Implementation; Positions; Department of Health; Appropriation
Description:
Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on Mobility Management, including funding of positions.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
