Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 123 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to establish fines for motorists who drive at speeds above limits set for school zones or construction areas.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and the Honolulu Police Department. The Department of Education testified in support of the intent of this bill. The Judiciary provided comments.

Your Committee finds that motor vehicle speeds should be strictly enforced in school zones to prevent injury and death to students, parents, other pedestrians, and motorists near schools.

Your Committee has amended this bill by inserting its substance into section 291C-104, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), which governs speeding in a construction area but does not provide for motorist fines. As amended, this bill:

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 purpose of H.B. No. 123, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 123, H.D. 1.