STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2668

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2832

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2832 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Specify that the counties may issue traffic infractions for violations of any law prohibiting or restricting the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on all highways and county property; and

(2) Authorize stopping, standing, and parking restrictions and prohibitions on property under jurisdiction of the Director of Transportation and the counties, respectively.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, one member of the Maui County Council, Mayor of the County of Maui, and one individual.

Your Committees find that ensuring the safety of all roadway users is of paramount importance. Currently, existing law does not empower the counties to issue traffic infractions for certain violations on highways and county property. Establishing additional powers for the counties will provide avenues to address hazardous conditions on highways that may interfere with the free flow of traffic. This measure will ensure that counties are able to issue traffic infractions where vehicles are creating an unsafe environment.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting language that would have applied authorization of prohibition of stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on county property; and

(2) Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2832, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2832, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair