STAND. COM. REP. NO.  972

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 693

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 693, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve highway safety by:

 

(1)  Establishing a three-year pilot photo red light imaging detector system program to improve enforcement of the traffic-control signal laws in all counties with a population in excess of 600,000; and

 

(2)  Making other amendments regarding highway safety.

 

     The Department of Transportation, Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hawaii, Safe Community of Maui, State Highway Safety Council, Hawaii Bicycling League, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Office of the Public Defender and a few concerned individuals opposed this measure.  Matson Navigation Co., Inc., provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Applying the photo red light imaging detector system program to all counties regardless of population size;

 

(2)  Specifying five intersections at which the photo red light imaging detector system program shall begin;

 

(3)  Requiring any citation issued pursuant to the photo red light imaging detector system program to be issued by a county police officer;

 

(4)  Extending the time period within which a person must answer a summons or citation from 15 days to 30 days;

 

(5)  Requiring a nonprofit organization that is organized and operated in accordance with section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, to administer the photo red light imaging detector system program;

 

(6)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2150, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(7)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 693, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 693, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair