Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 621 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make clarifying amendments to statutes governing the adjudication of traffic offenses, including extending the time for answering a notice of a traffic infraction.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Judiciary.

Your Committee finds that this measure is designed to eliminate inconsistencies in the manner by which traffic infraction cases arising under chapter 291D, Hawaii Revised Statues, are adjudicated. Your Committee further finds that extending the time period by which an answer to a notice of a traffic infraction must be filed from fifteen days to twenty days will provide additional time for the Honolulu Police Department to file notices of traffic infractions with the Traffic Violations Bureau or the District Court.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 621 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.