STAND. COM. REP. NO. 644

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 367

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 367 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to promote highway safety by increasing the fines for violations associated with a person operating a vehicle after the person's license and privilege has been suspended or revoked for operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that between fifty and seventy-five per cent of drivers whose licenses have been revoked for driving under the influence continue to drive despite the revocation.  Your Committee further finds that of the over six thousand drivers arrested in the State in 2015 for operating a vehicle under the influence, over one thousand were repeat offenders, many of whom were driving under a revoked or suspended license.  Your Committee believes that the increased fines proposed by this measure will deter violators from operating a vehicle without a license, thereby providing safer roadways for others.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 367 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair