STAND. COM. REP. NO. 483

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 730
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B.
No. 730 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RULES OF THE ROAD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the flow of traffic
on the State's highways.

     Your Committee finds that heavy trucks often congest the
roadways by not traveling in the right-most lane when they are
moving at speeds slower than the cars around them.

     This bill proposes that all slower traffic, including heavy
trucks, use the right lane of multilane highways by rules adopted
in accordance with chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS).
The appropriate signs and such notification tools shall direct
slower traffic to use the right lane, except for passing.

     Testimony in support of the intent of this bill was heard
from the Department of Transportation, which pointed out that
signs stating "Slow Traffic Keep Right" are already posted on
parts of their facilities and that chapter 291C-41(b), HRS,
requires vehicles traveling slower than the normal speed of
traffic to use the right lane.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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     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 H.B. No.
730 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to
the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair