STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1307-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 2832

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 Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2832, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify that the counties may issue traffic infractions for violations of any law prohibiting or restricting the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on highways.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor of the County of Maui; County of Hawaiʻi Office of the Prosecuting Attorney; one member of the Maui County Council; and Ulupono Initiative.

Your Committee finds that this measure ensures that counties are able to issue traffic infractions wherever vehicles are stopping, standing, or parking and creating an unsafe environment on state or county roadways.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2832, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2832, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair