Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 84 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the traffic code to promote pedestrian safety by increasing the penalties for violating pedestrian safety laws and by imposing additional requirements on pedestrians crossing roadways.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Transportation and Honolulu Police Department.

Your Committee finds that the increasing number of pedestrian injuries and fatalities in Hawaii is a serious concern. This measure clarifies and strengthens the pedestrian laws to alleviate this growing problem.

Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying the procedure requiring a vehicle approaching another vehicle that is stopped in an adjacent lane for the purpose of allowing a pedestrian to cross a street. Your Committee has also made a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of clarity.

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. 84, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 84, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.