STAND. COM. REP. NO. 302

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1298
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1298 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to transfer fifty percent of
all fines and forfeitures collected for uncontested traffic
infractions committed in that county.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Finance of the
County of Hawaii, Department of Budget of the City and County of
Honolulu, and the Police Department of the City and County of
Honolulu (oral testimony).  The Judiciary submitted testimony
commenting on this measure.

     Your Committee finds that all fines and forfeitures
collected for uncontested traffic infractions are currently
deposited into the general fund.  The Department of Budget and
Finance calculated that total collections from uncontested
traffic violations is projected to be $10.9 million in fiscal
year 2000.  Your Committee finds that the counties expend
considerable resources on traffic enforcement and should be
reimbursed to offset its costs with the amounts collected for
uncontested traffic infractions.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the
amount due the counties from fifty percent to all of the fines

 
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and forfeitures collected for uncontested traffic infractions and
requiring that amount be expended for public safety purposes.
Your Committee also made technical, nonsubstantive changes for
purposes of clarity, preferred drafting style, and consistency
and to accurately reflect current statutory language.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1298, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 1298, 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
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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