STAND. COM. REP. NO. 281-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2317
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2317 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to amend section 281-101.5,
Hawaii Revised Statutes(HRS), to clarify penalties incurred by
underage violators of the liquor law.

     Your Committee finds that underage drinking is a problem.
Your Committee further finds that current law does not stipulate
penalties to be incurred by minors for violating liquor laws.

     This bill provides that persons under the age of eighteen
who have violated liquor laws shall be penalized by: 

     (1)  Suspension of their driver's license for six months;

     (2)  Required to do 100 hours of offense-related community
          service; and

     (3)  Required to attend an alcohol and drug education
          program provided by the court with the accompaniment of
          a parent or guardian.


 
 
 
 
 
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This bill also provides that the aforementioned penalties apply
to offenders between the age of eighteen to twenty-one.  This
bill further stipulates that repeat offenders shall have their
license revoked for one year and required to perform one hundred
fifty hours of offense-related community service.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from Mother's
Against Drunk Driving, Youth in Action, and the Honolulu Police
Department.  The Judiciary took no position on the bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by targeting violators
under the age of eighteen and deleting amendments that would
apply to minors older than eighteen but younger than twenty-one.
Your Committee has also amended the length of community service
required by the family court, from one-hundred hours to twenty
hours.  
 
     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2317, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2317, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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



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                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair