STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2349

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2945

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 Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 2945 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Transportation to select multiple certified vendors to install ignition interlock devices.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Intoxalock.

Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hawaii and Smart Start, LLC.

Your Committee received comments from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that for many years, Hawaii has been one of the worst states in the nation in terms of the percent of total fatal traffic crashes that are alcohol related and that ignition interlock devices have been a proven means to stop intoxicated persons from driving. However, as your Committee notes, current law mandates that only a single vendor be selected by the Department of Transportation to implement the Statewide Ignition Interlock Program, depriving users of selecting ignition interlock devices based on product quality, features, and maintenance. This measure therefore will promote consumer choice, competition, and geographic availability of ignition interlock devices.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting its contents and inserting language that establishes a task force to conduct a statewide study on the accessibility of ignition interlock devices and any national best practices; and

(2) Amending section 1 to reflect its amended purpose; and

(3) 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 Transportation and Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2945, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2945, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair