STAND. COM. REP. NO. 685-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1899
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 1899, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received, is to require greater
safety for pedestrians while they are crossing roadways.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
State Department of Transportation, and City and County of
Honolulu Department of Transportation Services.

     Your Committee finds that the provisions of this bill as
amended will provide pedestrian safety while adequately allowing
for continuous flow of traffic.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that
the mandate that drivers slow and stop when a pedestrian is
within a crosswalk applies only to two-lane roadways while still
retaining the pedestrian's right of way within a crosswalk on all
roadways.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 1899, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto
as H.B. No. 1899, H.D. 2.

 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair