STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2414

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2952
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2952
entitled: 

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the measure is to:

     (1)  Extend the photo red light imaging and photo speed
          imaging detector demonstration project until July 1,
          2003;

     (2)  Authorize the Department of Transportation to retain
          project contractors;

     (3)  Allow the Department of Transportation to use revenues
          generated by the project to pay project costs; and

     (4)  Revise unnecessary or unsafe requirements on project
          technology and procedures.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Transportation, Honolulu Police Department, and the
Chamber of Commerce.  The Judiciary submitted comments.  The
Public Defender supported the extension of the project but
objected to the deletion of language requiring police officers to
make reasonable efforts to be seen.


 
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     Your Committees find that Act 234, Session Laws of Hawaii
1998, authorized the counties to implement photo speed imaging
detector and photo red light imaging systems demonstration
projects to improve traffic enforcement.

     Your Committees find that this measure will provide
sufficient time for contractors to recover their investment,
allow the Department of Transportation to generate useful data
about the demonstration project, and provide the legislature with
sufficient time to enact appropriate permanent legislation.  Your
Committees further find that the measure will significantly
increase the number of uncontested traffic citations for moving
violations, improve public compliance with traffic laws, and
reduce the number of traffic accidents, injuries, and deaths.

     Your Committees have amended the measure by clarifying that
the Director of Transportation shall have the authority only over
specific sections of the traffic laws, not all traffic laws.
Your Committees have also amended the measure by replacing the
word "robocop" with "photo enforcement", as more appropriate.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs and
Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2952, as
amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the
form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2952, S.D. 1, and be referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair        CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair



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MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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