STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2791

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2732

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2732, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ILLEGAL PARKING UPON BIKEWAYS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to deter drivers from driving or parking vehicles in bicycle lanes or bicycle paths by increasing the minimum fine for a violation from $35 to $100.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

 

     Your Committee finds that section 291C-123, Hawaii Revised Statutes, prohibits driving or parking in a bicycle lane or bicycle path except under certain authorized circumstances as allowed pursuant to City and County of Honolulu ordinances, including the execution of a legal turn, lane change, or parking maneuver.  Your Committee believes that raising the minimum fine for a violation will discourage violations of this law, thereby enhancing safety for bicyclists who use the bicycle lanes.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure;

 

(2)  Adding a savings clause; and

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2732, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2732, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair