STAND. COM. REP. NO. 990

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 946

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and Energy, to which was referred H.B. No. 946, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to specify that any driver who violates the high occupancy vehicle lane law shall be deemed to have committed a traffic infraction and shall be subject to a $150 fine.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that under the existing law, drivers who drive in a high occupancy lane in violation of the law are subject to an initial fine of $75.  This measure increases the fine to a flat rate of $150.

 

     Your Committee further finds that the increase in the fine will act as a deterrent for those drivers who violate the law.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Energy that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 946, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 946, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

 

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair