Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1309 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to speed up the accident investigation process by ensuring that Hawaii courts accept photogrammetric analysis of electronic photographs to determine locations, orientations, dimensions, and distances between physical evidence at the scene of Hawaii traffic accidents.

The Honolulu Police Department and three individuals testified in support of this bill. The Evidence Committee of the Hawaii Supreme Court supported some parts of the bill and opposed some parts of it. The Hawaii Department of Transportation supported the intent of the bill but not the methodology and judicial process. The Office of the Public Defender of the State of Hawaii opposed the bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1309, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1309, H.D. 2, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.