STAND. COM. REP. NO. 938

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 5
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 5 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to prevent persons with
outstanding traffic bench warrants from obtaining or renewing a
driver's license or from registering or transferring a motor
vehicle.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Honolulu Police Department.

     Your Committee finds that encumbering the ability of drivers
with outstanding bench warrants to renew their driver's license
or to obtain a license will encourage these people to clear up
their outstanding bench warrants.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the
provisions that would have prevented registration of a motor
vehicle by an individual with an outstanding bench warrant.

     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

 
 
 
 
 
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purpose of H.B. No. 5, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 5,
H.D. 1.

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



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair