STAND. COM. REP. NO. 837-26

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2026

RE: H.B. No. 2031

H.D. 2

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2026

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2031, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Establish the Administrative Hearings Division within the Department of Transportation and transfer certain administrative hearing powers to the Division, including matters related to transportation network company permit appeals, automated red light camera and speed enforcement traffic citations, and commercial driver's license appeals; and

(2) Allow authorized employees of the Department of Law Enforcement to review images produced by the automated red light camera and speed enforcement systems.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary and Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee notes the amendments proposed in the Department of the Attorney General's testimony suggesting the reinsertion of provisions on administrative hearings, as well as the addition of provisions to avoid statutory conflicts and allow the Department of Transportation to set specific fines, under chapters 291J and 291L, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2031, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair