Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2016 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to impose an additional license renewal fee on individuals convicted of driving under the influence of intoxicants.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Transportation, Honolulu Police Department, Mayor of Maui, and six Maui Council Members. Testimony in opposition was received from the Office of the Public Defender.

The intent of this measure is to punish drunk driving offenders and to provide counties with much needed funding to continue their law enforcement activities on behalf of the State.

Your Committee finds that it is fair and reasonable to assess drivers who have a driving under the influence conviction with an extra fee to renew their driver licenses. Under this measure, the fee assessment is for two license renewal cycles.

Your Committee has amended this measure to clarify that the additional fee assessment becomes the realization of each county police department in which the conviction occurred.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2016, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2016, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.