STAND. COM. REP. NO. 156-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1934

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1934 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish an Intoxicated Driving Reduction Working Group to study, investigate, and recommend transformative changes to the State's existing laws relating to the operation of a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hawaii; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Law Enforcement; Hawai‘i Alcohol Policy Alliance; and one individual.

Your Committee finds that there is a pressing need to identify systemic measures that the State may adopt to reduce incidents of intoxicated driving. Your Committee believes that establishing a working group of appropriate stakeholders to study, investigate, and recommend transformative changes to the State's laws, as proposed by this measure, will ensure the State will adopt a cohesive and comprehensive approach to combating intoxicated driving.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Removing references to specific organizations to be invited to participate in the Intoxicated Driving Reduction Working Group with the understanding that the Chair of the Working Group maintains the authority to invite any relevant stakeholders to participate;

(2) Requiring the Intoxicated Driving Reduction Working Group to consider strategies and best practices for the implementation and utilization of sobriety check points;

(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

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

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, if it chooses to deliberate on this measure, to consider including representatives from law enforcement agencies as members of the Intoxicated Driving Reduction Working Group.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1934, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1934, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair