STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2326

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2951




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. 2951 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure that Hawaii courts
accept police use of computer analysis of conventional and
electronic photographs to measure distances and dimensions of
physical evidence at the scene of traffic accidents.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Transportation, University of Hawaii, and Institute
of Transportation Engineers.  Testimony in opposition to the
measure was received from the Honolulu Police Department, and the
Judiciary recommended the measure be deferred.  

     Your Committee recognizes the concerns of the Judiciary
regarding evidentiary analysis and the lack of opportunity to
study the matter, as well as the Police Department's concern that
use of computer analysis would allow the use of evidence not
taken from the scene of the accident.  However, your Committee
finds that this measure will offer an alternative to be used by
both the Judiciary and the Police Department and supports the
measure.

     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. 2951, 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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