STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1014-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1690

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1690, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD PASSENGER RESTRAINT SYSTEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require:

(1) Motor vehicle operators to ensure that children two years of age or younger are properly restrained in rear-facing child passenger restraint systems; and

(2) The use of child safety seats or booster seats for certain children four years of age or older but less than ten years of age.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Police Department. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Transportation, Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition, Kapi‘olani Medical Center for Women and Children, and Safe Kids Hawai‘i.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 1690, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1690, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair