Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1575 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the traffic code to increase pedestrian safety.

Your Committee has received testimony in favor of this measure from the Department of Transportation and the Honolulu Police Department.

Your Committee finds that pedestrian fatalities in Honolulu account for about one-third of the total traffic fatalities each year. Hawaii's law is not clear on what drivers must do when they approach a pedestrian crossing the street.

Your Committee adopted the recommendations of the Honolulu Police Department to make grammatical changes to clarify the purpose of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1575, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1575, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.