RELATING TO IMPLEMENTATION OF A FIXED RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM.

Requires Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization, to develop an action plan for implementation of a fixed rail transit system on Oahu.

RELATING TO IMPLEMENTATION OF A FIXED RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEM.

Requires the Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization, to develop an action plan for implementation of a fixed rail transit system on Oahu. Requires the DOT to begin process of acquiring land for the fixed rail system.

AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR THE PLANNING, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCTION OF A HONOLULU MONORAIL.

Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds for the planning, design, and construction of a Honolulu monorail.

RELATING TO HIGHWAYS.

Clarifies that the provisions regarding responsibility for the charges for the removal, relocation, replacement, or reconstruction of utility facilities are applicable only to state or county highway projects that receive funding from the Federal Highway Administration.

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

Authorizes the Department of Transportation to collect passenger facility charges revenue. Creates a passenger facility charge special fund.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-EMERGENCY REPORT SYSTEM, KNOWN AS 3-1-1.

Appropriates funds to Honolulu police department for development costs for 311 non-emergency report system.

RELATING TO NON-EMERGENCY POLICE CALL SYSTEMS.

Authorizes public utilities providing phone service in the State to levy a surcharge to cover the costs of establishing a 311 system to receive incoming non-emergency calls that are inappropriate for the existing 911 system.

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Amends the criteria for the firearms safety or training courses to ensure that the applicants specifically receive handgun training.

RELATING TO FIREARMS.

Enables counties to regulate operation of firing ranges within their jurisdiction.

RELATING TO FIREARMS, AMMUNITION, AND DANGEROUS WEAPONS.

Repeals the current law relating to firearms, ammunition, and dangerous weapons, and enacts a new law on the same subject, including provisions for permits to acquire firearms, possession by licensed hunters and minors, target shooting, game hunting, and licenses to carry concealed pistols and revolvers.

RELATING TO USE OF INTOXICANTS WHILE OPERATING A VEHICLE.

Creates an additional penalty of $100 to anyone convicted of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Directs moneys from additional penalty to law enforcement agency who arrested driver to enhance technologies to detect drunk drivers.

RELATING TO CHAPTER 291E.

Establishes offense of habitually operating a vehicle while under influence of an intoxicant. Adds certain offenses committed as a minor as "prior" offenses.

RELATING TO USE OF INTOXICANTS WHILE OPERATING A VEHICLE.

Allows police to take breath, blood, or urine tests from persons involved in an motor vehicle accident who are not injured or refuse to be treated for an injury; clarifies that the notice of administrative revocation shall not serve as a temporary permit if at the time of the arrest the person refused to submit to a breath or blood test, or both, or urine test.

RELATING TO TRAFFIC LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Requires deputy sheriffs to enforce the Statewide Traffic Code and state laws regarding driving under the influence of an intoxicant.

RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE.

Makes it a petty misdemeanor to drive a moped without a valid driver's license.

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE DRIVER'S LICENSE REVOCATION.

Removes law enforcement mileage fees from the costs covered by administrative hearing processing fees.

RELATING TO PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE ON ARREST.

Provides criminal penalties for failure of a driver to provide identification when detained for a traffic violation.

RELATING TO POLICE DEPARTMENTS.

Expands powers of the chief of police acting outside the chief's own county.

RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSING.

Requires a driver's license to indicate whether the person is a convicted sex offender.

RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSING.

Establishes a three-stage graduated driver licensing program for persons under the age of eighteen. Requires drivers under the age of eighteen to be accompanied by a licensed parent or guardian when driving between the hours of eleven o'clock p.m. and five o'clock a.m., with limited exceptions. Requires temporary instruction permit holders to be accompanied by a person who is at least twenty-one years of age, rather than eighteen, when driving.

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Senator Cal Kawamoto