STAND. COM. REP. NO. 892

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1469
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which
was referred S.B. No. 1469 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ADJUDICATION OF TRAFFIC
     INFRACTIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal the decriminalization
of certain traffic offenses and return to the statutory structure
which existed in 1993 in which traffic offenses were
criminalized.

     Your Committees find that possibilities exist for revenue
enhancement through the elimination of the decriminalization, due
to additional fines and penalties which can be imposed under
criminal offenses.  The increased collection of traffic fines
which may result from recriminalization could have a significant
effect on State revenues.  While the testifiers on this measure
expressed reasonable concerns about the consequences of
recriminalizing these traffic violations, the potential positive
budgetary impact of this bill should be explored further.

     Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the
Judiciary, the Public Defender, the Prosecuting Attorney of the
City and County of Honolulu, the Prosecuting Attorney of the
County of Maui, and the Honolulu Police Department.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to

 
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this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1469 and recommend that it pass Second
Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Judiciary and
                                   Ways and Means,



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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair           AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair             MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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