Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1770 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to increase fines for repeatedly allowing car alarms to sound for longer than five continuous minutes.

Concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure balances the legitimate interest of preventing automobile theft against the nuisance factor of repeated activation of car alarms.

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. 1770, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1770, H.D. 1.