STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3295

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 32

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 32, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify when a pedestrian may enter a crosswalk equipped with a countdown timer.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and Department of Transportation Services, City and County of Honolulu.

 

     Your Committee finds that section 291C-33, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to pedestrian-control signals, was last amended in 1981.  This measure updates this law to include countdown timers and to clarify when a pedestrian is allowed to cross when the countdown timer is operating.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 32, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 32, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair