STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2214

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3073
                                        S.D. 1




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. 3073 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IMPAIRED DRIVING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to add the habitual driving
offense to the implied consent law, to define "preliminary
alcohol screening device", and clarify that it is not a
substitute for a test under the implied consent law.

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

     Your Committee finds that the use of the preliminary alcohol
screen will significantly assist the police in identifying
alcohol impaired drivers as well as those drivers who are not
alcohol impaired.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by clarifying that a
preliminary alcohol screen shall only be used in determining
probable cause for the arrest, and not as a substitute for the
breath, blood, or urine test required by the implied consent
statutes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is

 
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attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3073, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 3073, S.D. 1, 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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