STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2606

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2641

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 Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2641 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATED TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Limit moving violations arising from the operation of a motor vehicle that appear on traffic abstracts to those that resulted in convictions; and

(2) Require the Traffic and Emergency Period Violations Bureaus to remove all alleged moving violations not resulting in a conviction from certified abstracts.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the ACLU of Hawaiʻi and two individuals.

Your Committees received comments on this measure from The Judiciary.

Your Committees find that moving violations that do not result in convictions currently appear on certified abstracts furnished by the Traffic and Emergency Period Violations Bureaus of the District Courts. According to testimony received by your Committees, these alleged moving violations have barred individuals from both private and military employment. Your Committees believe that reducing the collateral consequences of court records is imperative to enhancing employment opportunities.

Your Committees have amended this measure by 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 Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2641, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2641, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

________________________________ JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair