STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2696

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1190

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1190, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require county police departments to:

 

(1)  Identify roadways most critical to free movement of persons and commerce; and

 

     (2)  Establish protocols necessary to coordinate major accident investigations, including notifying the medical examiner in fatal accident cases to investigate simultaneously with the police department.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from three individuals.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     The intent of this measure is to expedite investigations of fatal traffic accidents to get traffic moving again as quickly as possible, while preserving highway safety.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon approval, and making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1190, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1190, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

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

 

 

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair