STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2111

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2635
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2635 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAYS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to lower highway vending to a
petty misdemeanor and extend the definition of the crime to
include the risk of creating a hazardous condition or public
nuisance.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Transportation, the Honolulu Police Department, and
the Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney.

     Upon consideration of all pertinent issues and testimony
presented, your Committee finds that this measure will clarify
where vending is prohibited, eliminate discrepancies between the
section stating the offense and the section imposing the penalty,
and provide that the offense can be committed by recklessly
disregarding the risk of creating a hazardous condition or public
nuisance rather than requiring the actual creation of the
hazardous condition or public nuisance.  In addition, the bill
reduces the offense from a misdemeanor to a petty misdemeanor.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the

 
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intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2635, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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