Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2167, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the traffic enforcement demonstration project.

In addition, this measure reenacts affected sections of the Hawaii Revised Statutes in the form in which they read prior to their amendment by the traffic enforcement demonstration law, requires the Department of Transportation to terminate all contracts with private entities for the provision of photo traffic enforcement services, and transfers all moneys in the photo enforcement revolving fund to the state general fund.

Your Committee finds that Act 234, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, as amended in 1999 and 2000, required the Department of Transportation to contract with a private vendor to implement the traffic enforcement demonstration project. The project involves the use of photo speed imaging detectors to deter speeders, photo red light imaging devices to implicate red light runners, and other photo technology systems to deter motorists from illegally crossing longitudinal lane markings.

The Department contracted with a private vendor, and the photo speed imaging system went into effect in January, 2002, but the photo red light imaging and photo technology systems are not yet in place. Your Committee finds that the project, as currently implemented, has caused numerous disruptions to drivers and pedestrians in the State, and finds that the entire project should be discontinued and the contract with the private vendor terminated as soon as possible.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2167, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.