STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2985

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1763
                                        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 Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1763, H.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BICYCLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the measure is to require bicycle riders
under eighteen years old to wear bicycle helmets.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Health, Department of Transportation, Honolulu
Police Department, Disability and Communication Access Board,
Peoples Advocacy For Trails Hawaii (PATH), and Hawaii Bicycling
League.

     Your Committee finds that requiring the use of a bicycle
helmet by persons under eighteen years of age will reduce the
number of injuries substantially.
  
     Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the
reference to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
and the Childrens' Safety Network.  Your Committee has also
deleted the language referring to a trailer towed by the bicycle
as unnecessary, because current law prohibits bicycles from
towing anything.  Finally, your Committee has deleted the
provision that a helmet must be purchased within ten days after
the date of the citation in order for the $25 fine to be waived.  


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1763, H.D. 2, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 1763, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Judiciary.

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



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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