STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1446

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 438

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 438, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify penalties for various traffic offenses. The measure also requires the driver of an approaching vehicle to stop and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian or bicyclist to cross the roadway within a marked crosswalk.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Transportation, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, the Honolulu Police Department, and one individual.

This measure removes duplicative or unnecessary penalty provisions for filing false reports or leaving the scene of an accident involving damage to a vehicle or property.

Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that a driver of a vehicle approaching within twenty feet of a marked crosswalk shall stop and remain stopped while pedestrians and bicyclists are within a marked crosswalk or, if there is no stop line, at the crosswalk's edge closest to the approaching vehicle.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 438, 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. 438, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair