STAND. COM. REP. NO. 865-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2618
                                     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. 2618, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REPEAT INTOXICATED DRIVERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to amend the law relating to
administrative revocation of driver's licenses to include
revocation of all motor vehicle registration issued to a driver
who has been convicted of previous violations of driving under
the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.

     The Department of Transportation, the Department of the
Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, Mothers
Against Drunk Drivers, and concerned individuals testified in
support of the measure.  The Judiciary and the Office of the
Public Defender provided comments.

     Your Committee finds that this measure can meet the
requirements of section 5 of the federal TEA-21 Restoration Act,
which establishes a new program under Section 164 of Chapter 1,
Title 23 U.S.C., encouraging states to enact repeat intoxicated
driver laws.  Compliance with the requirement for such enactment
will prevent the loss of federal highway funds.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:


 
 
 
 
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     1.   Delaying the destruction of any license plates seized
          by or surrendered to the director until after the
          hearing process is completed;

     2.   Including into the category of arrestees who have one
          prior alcohol enforcement contact within five years,
          those arrestees who have two prior alcohol enforcement
          contacts within seven years; and

     3.   Making technical and nonsubstantive changes for the
          purpose of clarity and style.

     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. 2618, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto
as H.B. No. 2618, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair