STAND. COM. REP. 787
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 49
H.D. 2
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. 49, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of the bill is to prohibit the use of a hand-held cellular telephone while operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway, except for emergency purposes.
The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, Hawaii Transportation Association, and Verizon Wireless provided comments.
Your Committee finds that this measure promotes driver's attention to road safety.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Clarifying that the regulation of operator use of a cellular telephone in a motor vehicle is expressly preempted by the state; and
(2) Inserting a severabilty clause.
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. 49, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 49, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair |
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