STAND. COM. REP. NO. 851-20

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2020

RE: H.B. No. 2174

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2174, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OPERATING A VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTOXICANT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Define "highly intoxicated driver";

(2) Provide the evidentiary standard for establishing that a person was a "highly intoxicated driver";

(3) Require that ignition interlock devices be installed and maintained on one or more vehicles registered to and all vehicles operated by anyone convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant, during the applicable period of license revocation;

(4) Increase the license revocation period ordered by the Administrative Driver's License Revocation Office and extend the applicable lookback periods from five to ten years;

(5) Establish higher penalties for a highly intoxicated driver operating a vehicle; and

(6) Amend the penalties for offenses of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Honolulu Police Department, City and County of Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Smart Start LLC, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hawaii. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary's Administrative Driver's License Revocation Office.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2174, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair