STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2216

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3115
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3115 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FINES FOR TRAFFIC
     VIOLATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to create an additional
penalty of $100 for convictions and adjudications to be used by
law enforcement agencies to enhance technologies used to detect
persons driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor and
persons under 21 driving after consuming a measurable amount of
alcohol.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Judiciary, Department of Transportation, Prosecuting Attorney for
the City and County of Honolulu, and the Honolulu Police
Department.

     Your Committee finds that this fine will help arresting
agencies to purchase law enforcement equipment to prevent alcohol
related driving.  Your Committee finds that there is a logical
nexus in requiring alcohol impaired drivers to financially assist
in providing the needed technology and equipment as part of their
sentence.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding the
proposed language to provisions concerning habitually driving
under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drug.  Your

 
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Committee has further amended the measure by replacing references
to "court clerk" with "clerk of the court" to conform with other
statutory provisions and has inserted the word "adjudicated" in
place of "convicted" in section 291-4.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
as juveniles are adjudicated, not convicted of offenses.
Finally, your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive
changes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3115, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 3115, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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