Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 85 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the courts to order that a vehicle owned by the defendant or the defendant's parents or legal guardians be forfeited if the defendant had a prior racing offense within five years of the current offense.

Your Committee received testimony supporting the intent of this measure from the Department of Transportation. The Office of the Public Defender and the Honolulu Police Department opposed the measure.

Your Committee finds that highway racing poses a serious threat to the health, safety, and welfare of other highway users. Your Committee further finds that current penalties have failed to deter highway racing. This bill hopefully will encourage parents to take a more active role in ensuring that their children are law abiding citizens.

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 S.B. No. 85 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.