HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                 THE TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE
                  REGULAR SESSION OF 1999

                COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
               Rep. Kenneth T. Hiraki, Chair
              Rep. Kenny Goodenow, Vice Chair

  Rep. Iris Ikeda Catalani      Rep. K. Mark Takai
  Rep. Eric G. Hamakawa         Rep. Terry Nui Yoshinaga
  Rep. Bob Nakasone             Rep. Galen Fox
  Rep. Tom Okamura              Rep. Mark Moses

                     NOTICE OF HEARING

        DATE:    SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1999

        TIME:    9:00 A.M.

        PLACE:   Conference Room 309, State Capitol


                        A G E N D A

HB 1401    RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE TOWING              TRN,CPC
        Requires towing businesses to have insurance coverage
        for towed motor vehicles that are damaged while being
        towed and stored by the towing business.  Requires a
        towing company to submit a bond of $15,000 to the
        director of commerce and consumer affairs to cover
        items in a towed vehicle that are lost, damaged, and
        stolen.  Describes the proper identification for
        towing trucks and repeals the drop-dead provision of
        Act 138, SLH 1998.

HB 1292    RELATING TO AN INTERISLAND FERRY SYSTEM       TRN,FIN
        Appropriates funds for an interisland ferry system
        between Maui and Molokai

HB 1408    RELATING TO HIGHWAYS                          TRN,FIN
        Defines the term "zipper lane" and permits the use of
        the zipper lane by vehicles carrying three or fewer
        passengers during specific hours.  Permits the use of
        the HOV lane by all vehicles between the hours of 7:00
        a.m. and 8:00 a.m.

 
 
 
 
 
 
HB 1728    RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REVERSE WARNING SYSTEM
                                                  TRN,EEP,JHA
        Allows audible reverse warning systems to be manually
        turned off for noise control purposes and requires
        bright flashing lights in the rear of the vehicle to
        be used instead.  Requires that new vehicles and
        existing vehicles which are re-designed or re-equipped
        to have audible warning systems are modified to permit
        the warning system to be turned off manually and
        require that bright flashing lights in the rear of the
        vehicle be used instead.

HB 1636    RELATING TO TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT               TRN,FIN
        Amends Act 234 to allow for the use of other photo
        technologies, such as hand-held or mounted video
        cameras, conventional cameras, and digital cameras,
        other that speed photo imaging detectors and photo red
        light imaging devices, to produce photographic
        identification of vehicles that illegally cross
        longitudinal traffic lane markings.  Amends the
        demonstration project to close a loophole with respect
        to registered owners of vehicles who are not the
        operators of the vehicle at the time of the alleged
        violation.  Also amends the traffic code to allow for
        the mailing of traffic citations to violators on
        access control roads to provide for greater
        enforcement of the traffic laws, reduce the potential
        for accidents, and speed up traffic flow.

HB 1565    MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF
        CREATING A LOOKOUT AT WAIMEA BAY ON KAMEHAMEHA HIGHWAY
        ON THE ISLAND OF OAHU                         TRN,FIN
        Provides funds to study the feasibility of creating a
        Waimea lookout and rest area for persons wishing to
        view the scenery and recreational activities, and
        thereby reduce hazardous traffic conditions and
        congestion.

HB 1528    RELATING TO PENALTIES AND PROCEDURES ON ARREST
                                                      TRN,JHA
        Gives police the authority to arrest a person for
        refusing to provide information under the requirements
        set forth in section 291C-172, Hawaii Revised Statues,
        or if there is a reasonable basis for believing that
        the person is providing inaccurate, deceptive, or
        misleading information as to the person's identity and
        residence.

 
 
 
 
 
 
HB 1555    MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SALT LAKE BOULEVARD
        WIDENING, OAHU                                TRN,FIN
        Provides the State's share of project costs to design
        and construct improvements to Salt Lake Boulevard,
        Oahu.

HB 1554    RELATING TO HIGHWAYS                      TRN,CPC,FIN
        Clarifies the application of the cost sharing
        provisions provided for in section 264-33, Hawaii
        Revised Statutes, when utility facilities are
        necessarily removed, relocated, replaced or
        reconstructed due to the construction of a state
        highway, or state or county federal-aid highway.

HB 1547    RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE                   TRN,JHA
        Allows the use of curb markings as official signs to
        prohibit or restrict the stopping, standing, or
        parking of vehicles on the highway.

HB 862     RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS                     TRN,FIN
        Makes permanent an amendment to the motor carriers law
        which exempted from that law persons transporting
        unprocessed seed corn to a processing facility, by
        repealing a sunset provision in Act 120, Session Laws
        of Hawaii 1997.

HB 1530    RELATING TO IMPAIRED DRIVERS                  TRN,JHA
        Requires that health care providers notify the proper
        authorities if they discover, through blood tests,
        that persons, under their care and who are involved in
        traffic collisions, had a drug or alcohol content in
        their blood which meets or exceeds the amount
        specified in section 291-4 or 291-7.  Removes from the
        health care providers and persons giving the test, as
        well as the institutions employing or utilizing such
        persons, any civil liability resulting from any action
        that is in compliance with this requirement.

HB 1457    RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE               TRN,JHA FIN
        Makes spilling load violations an offense.

HB 730     RELATING TO RULES OF THE ROAD                  TRN,FIN
        Authorizes the director of transportation and counties
        to adopt rules or ordinances, as the case may be, to
        direct slower traffic, such as heavy trucks, to use
        the right lane in multi-lane highways, except for
        passing.

 
 
 
 
 
 
HB 719     RELATING TO ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES           TRN,FIN
        Increases the maximum amount of the additional fee
        assessed for motor vehicle certificates of
        registration to be used for highway beautification and
        the disposal of abandoned vehicles.

HB 372     RELATING TO VEHICLE HIGHWAY BEAUTIFICATION FEE 
                                                       TRN,FIN
        Increases the highway beautification fee collected
        from each motor vehicle registration from $1 to $2.

HB 451     RELATING TO THE METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION      TRN,FIN
        Changes the election of the chairperson of the
        metropolitan planning organization from once a year to
        every two years.

HB 382     RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION                     TRN,FIN
        Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds
        and makes an appropriation for the improvement of the
        Saddle Road in order to accommodate the cross-island
        transportation needs of Hawaii island.


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                               Rep. Kenneth T. Hiraki
                               Chair