STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2986

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1759
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs and Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1759,
H.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the measure is to extend the photo red light
imaging and photo speed imaging detector demonstration project to
July 1, 2003, and to make additional changes regarding project
procedures and parameters including:

     (1)  Extending the time period for a citation to be sent
          following an incident from forty-eight hours to three
          days;

     (2)  Conferring the powers of the police to provide
          oversight and services for the project to the director
          of transportation and his officers, employees, agents,
          and representatives;

     (3)  Establishing a photo enforcement revolving fund to be
          administered by the department of transportation to pay
          for the costs of the demonstration project;

     (4)  Allowing the department of transportation instead of
          the counties to establish a photo speed imaging

 
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          detector system or a photo red light imaging system and
          to contract with appropriate providers;

     (5)  Allowing an authorized contractor, in addition to the
          police, to operate the photo speed imaging detector
          equipment;

     (6)  Including monitoring of high occupancy vehicle lanes in
          the definition of "photo technology system"; and

     (7)  Requiring the department, in consultation with the
          police to submit an interim report to the legislature
          before the convening of the regular session of 2001.  

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Transportation, Honolulu Police Department, Office
of the Public Defender, Chamber of Commerce, and a citizen.

     Your Committees find that this measure will provide
sufficient time for contractors to recover their investment,
allow the Department of Transportation to generate useful data
about the demonstration project, and provide the legislature with
sufficient time to enact appropriate permanent legislation.  Your
Committees further find that this measure will significantly
increase the number of uncontested traffic citations for moving
violations, improve public compliance with traffic laws, and
reduce the number of traffic accidents, injuries, and deaths.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting its
contents and inserting S.B. No. 2952, S.D. 1, a companion bill.
In so doing your Committees:

     (1)  Inserted a purpose clause;

     (2)  Removed the reference to a violation of designated uses
          of high occupancy vehicle lanes; and

     (3)  Extended the photo enforcement revolving fund
          appropriation from the fiscal year 2001 to the fiscal
          year 2003.             

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs and
Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1759, H.D. 2,
as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in
the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1759, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs
                                   and Judiciary,



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AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair        CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair



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MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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