STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3534

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 25

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.C.R. No. 25 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ENCOURAGING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO EXPAND THE RED-LIGHT SAFETY PROGRAM TO WINDWARD, LEEWARD, AND CENTRAL OAHU,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to encourage the Department of Transportation and the Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu to expand the Red-Light Safety Program to Windward, Leeward, and Central Oahu.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Pearl City Neighborhood Board No. 21, and one individual.

Your Committees find that federal data suggests that automated traffic enforcement can reduce the costs of enforcement, lessen the danger of enforcement for police officers, and increase the awareness of drivers that there are consequences for violating traffic laws. Your Committees further find that as of February 2023, the current iteration of the Red-Light Safety Program has issued nine hundred forty-six citations at the five intersections at which it currently operates in urban Honolulu. Your Committees conclude that expansion of the Red-Light Safety Program to Windward, Leeward, and Central Oahu may also reduce crashes and injuries outside of Honolulu's urban core.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Requesting the Department of Transportation and the Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu to expand the Red-Light Safety Program generally, rather than specifically, to Windward, Leeward, and Central Oahu;

(2) Amending the title in accordance with its amended purpose; and

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

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 concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 25, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 25, S.D. 1.

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