Bill Text: HI SCR138 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requesting The Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation And Adaption Commission To Develop Vehicle Miles Traveled Reduction Strategies And Make Related Recommendations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-04-05 - Referred to EEP/TRN, referral sheet 27 [SCR138 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SCR138-Amended.html
THE SENATE |
S.C.R. NO. |
138 |
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
S.D. 1 |
|
STATE OF HAWAII |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
SENATE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE HAWAII CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTION COMMISSION TO DEVELOP VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED REDUCTION STRATEGIES AND MAKE RELATED RECOMMENDATIONS.
WHEREAS, decreasing transportation-related emissions is essential to achieving the State's greenhouse gas reduction goals; and
WHEREAS, the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Commission found that vehicle miles traveled is an important measurement to track the State's efforts on greenhouse gas reduction; and
WHEREAS, current strategies to mitigate vehicle miles traveled in the State are ineffective; and
WHEREAS, vehicle miles traveled have increased almost forty percent over the last twenty-five years and, without intervention, are projected to continue to increase; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2024, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Commission is requested to:
(1) Develop vehicle miles traveled reduction strategies;
(2) Recommend a statewide vehicle miles traveled reduction target;
(3) Recommend benchmarks for, and evaluate progress toward, the vehicle miles traveled reduction target; and
(4) Identify state and county agencies to collaborate and coordinate on the implementation of vehicle miles traveled reduction policies, strategies, and programs; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Commission is requested to submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than forty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2025; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Co-Chairpersons of the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission.
Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Commission; Vehicle Miles Traveled