STAND. COM. REP. NO. 719

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 76

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 76 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify penalties for motor vehicle size and weight violations.

The Department of Transportation and Hawaii Transportation Association submitted testimony in support of this measure.

The law currently provides that fines for violating vehicle size requirements; vehicle gross weight, axle, and wheel load requirements; or any exceptions to the vehicle requirements, shall be no more than $600 and no less than the amounts set forth in section 291-37, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS). This measure removes the $600 "maximum fine" requirement for first violations.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the amounts listed in section 291-37, HRS, are set penalty amounts, rather than minimum fines, for first violations; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive stylistic changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 76, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 76, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing,

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RON MENOR, Chair