STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2965

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2308

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2308 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPEEDING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish additional fines and penalties for convictions of speeding in a school zone.

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

Your Committee finds that school zones are planned to help ensure that students arrive at and leave school safely. Your Committee further finds that common contributing factors in school zone related accidents are speed and distracted drivers. Even though speed reduction laws in school zones already exist, students are still injured in these types of accidents. This measure will establish additional fines for those convicted of speeding in school zones, which will deter them from committing future violations.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting a savings clause; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2308, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2308, S.D. 1.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair