STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1121-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 2819

S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 2819, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require a vehicle that is proceeding at less than the posted speed limit on a two-lane roadway where passing or overtaking another vehicle is not possible or permitted and behind which a line of five vehicles has formed to pull over where possible and permit the trailing vehicles to overtake.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that this measure will improve operational efficiency on Hawaii's roads and may reduce incidents of road rage.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that this measure applies only to vehicles traveling at ten miles per hour or more below the posted speed limit, rather than all vehicles traveling below the speed limit; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, should it choose to deliberate on this measure, to consider inserting language to ensure that requiring slow-moving drivers to pull to the side of the road to allow trailing vehicles to pass them will not create a scenario where the driver is legally required to take an action that would result in an unsafe situation.

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 S.B. No. 2819, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2819, S.D. 1, 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