STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3665

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2295

H.D. 1

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 H.B. No. 2295, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

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

(2) 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.

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

Your Committee finds that issuing citations for traffic violations bolsters the enforcement of county and state traffic laws while increasing public safety and reducing congestion due to vehicular traffic. This measure will improve the safety of the State's roadways by ensuring that counties are able to issue traffic infractions where vehicles are creating an unsafe environment on roadways and properties under the Department of Transportation or county jurisdiction.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making it effective upon its approval.

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 H.B. No. 2295, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2295, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair