STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1591

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 375

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 375, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PEDESTRIANS' RIGHT OF WAY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify a driver's duty to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk and to impose fines for drivers and pedestrian who fail to comply with the crosswalk law based on the number of previous infractions of the same offense.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the bill from the State Department of Transportation and Kokua Council.  The Public Defender's Office opposed the bill.

 

     Your Committee amended the bill by clarifying when it would be safe for a driver to proceed after stopping for a pedestrian in a crosswalk.  Your Committee also made some technical non-substantive amendments to the bill.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report,


your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 375, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 375, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair