STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1003

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1528

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 1528 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify that all traffic infractions under the statewide traffic code are treated as traffic violations and not criminal offenses.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from the Judiciary.  There was no opposition to this bill.

 

     Your Committee finds that this bill would affirm what Hawaii case law has held, that traffic infractions are not criminal in nature, and therefore should be treated under regulatory and not criminal proceedings.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1528 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 


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

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair