STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1447

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 502

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. 502, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC OFFENSES REQUIRING IMPOSITION OF INCREASED PENALTIES FOR SUBSEQUENT OFFENSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to impose minimum fine amounts for second and third convictions of the child passenger restraint law as well as to clarify the maximum fine amount for a third violation of the motor vehicle alarm system law within a five-year period.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of Transportation.

This measure provides clarity with respect to minimum and maximum fine amounts that may be assessed for various traffic offenses.

Your Committee has amended this measure by removing the three-year time period with respect to determining the minimum and maximum fine amount for a third or subsequent conviction of the child passenger system law.

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. 502, 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. 502, 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