STAND. COM. REP. NO.209

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 1107

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1107 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to reduce injuries and fatalities to individual riding in pickup trucks by raising the age of individuals banned from riding in the bed of a pickup truck from 12 to 16.

The Department of Transportation, Department of Health, Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition, and the Honolulu Police Department testified in support of the intent of the bill.

Your Committee finds that there are a number of families whose only vehicle is a pickup truck, especially in rural counties. Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by restricting the ban to counties with a population of more than 250,000 persons.

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. 1107, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1107, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair