STAND. COM. REP. NO. 703

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 438

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 438 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC OFFENSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to repeal the penalties in section 291C-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), because duplicative penalties are provided under section 291C-161, HRS.

The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai and the Honolulu Police Department testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that upon the recommendation of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, an amendment must be made to section 291C-18, HRS, to remove another duplicate penalty provision.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting the existing penalty provisions from section 291C-18, HRS; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 438, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 438, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair