STAND. COM. REP. NO. 283-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2775
                                     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. 2775 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalties for
those persons who drive impaired with a blood-alcohol
concentration(BAC) of .17 or more. 

     Your Committee finds that a driver with a high BAC is at
much greater risk of becoming involved in a motor vehicle
collision.  

     This bill doubles the penalties for driving under the
influence of intoxicating liquor at a blood-alcohol level of .17
or more grams of alcohol per one hundred milliliters or cubic
centimeters of blood or .17 or more grams of alcohol per two-
hundred ten liters of breath.

     Testimonies in support of this bill were received from the
Department of Transportation, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the
Hawaii Nurses' Association, and the Honolulu Police Department.
The Judiciary took no position on this bill.

     Your Committtee has amended this bill by setting the maximum
jail time at thirty days instead of sixty days.  This bill is
further amended by deleting the substance of section 3 which
amended section 291-4.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 
 
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     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.
2775, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2775, 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