RELATING TO JURISDICTION OF PIER 1 AND PIER 2.

Excludes Pier 1 and Pier 2 from Kakaako community development district. Reverts ownership, jurisdiction, and control over maintenance, operations, and development of Pier 1 and Pier 2 to DOT, including the submerged lands thereunder.

TGO, WLA

RELATING TO TRAFFIC OFFENSES.

Creates a traffic offense with mandatory sentences for a person driving a vehicle at a speed exceeding the posted speed limit by twenty-five miles per hour or more, or traveling at eighty miles per hour or more.

TGO, JHW

RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY

Provides for the suspension of a commercial driver's license for a positive drug or alcohol test.

RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSING

Conforms Hawaii law with the requirements of the federal commercial driver licensing statutes.

RELATING TO DERELICT VEHICLES.

Amends the definition of derelict vehicle by including vehicles deemed abandoned and deleting age specifications.

RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF VEHICLES, VESSELS, AND AIRCRAFT.

Expressly provides an owner, lien holder, or other person with interest in a derelict or abandoned vehicle, vessel, or aircraft with notice and the opportunity to request a post-custodial administrative hearing before disposition of the vehicle, vessel, or aircraft.

RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS

Prohibits drivers from utilizing mobile phones while driving unless the phone can be operated hands-free.

A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE

Requires the operator of a vehicle to stop when a pedestrian is in a crosswalk at anytime on a non-divided highway and on either half of a divided highway if the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle operator is traveling

RELATING TO TRAFFIC.

Directs the department of transportation to study the capacity of Castle Junction to handle traffic and submit findings and recommendations to the governor and legislature by 12/31/2005. Appropriates funds.

TGO, WAM

RELATING TO TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS

Allows audible reverse warning system to be manually turned off when reversing under specified conditions.

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO INSTALL A SECOND ACCESS ROAD TO LEEWARD COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

Makes an appropriation to the department of transportation to construct a second access road to Leeward Community College.

TGO, WAM

RELATING TO HIGHWAY DESIGN.

Directs the department of transportation to establish new guidelines that take into account the need for flexibility in highway design.

TGO, WAM

RELATING TO TRAFFIC OFFENSES

Establishes the petty misdemeanor offense of excessive speeding which is defined as 30 or miles per hour over the speed limit or 90 miles per hour or more irrespective of the speed limit.

TGO, JHW

RELATING TO KAHEKILI HIGHWAY.

Appropriates $ for FY 2005-2006 and $ for FY 2006-2007 to the DOT for operating costs of a contraflow lane on Kahekili Highway during peak hours.

TGO, WAM

RELATING TO INTERFERENCE WITH TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES

Prohibits unauthorized persons and entities from possessing, using, or selling any device, which allows the control of any official traffic control device.

RELATING TO HIGHWAYS.

Requires the DOT to use federal alternative standards that take into account environmental, scenic, aesthetic, historic, and other impacts when repairing or reconstructing a scenic highway in the state highway system. Limits state liability. Establishes advisory commission. Appropriates funds for commission.

TGO, WAM

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A LOCAL FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM FOR LAKE WILSON.

Appropriates funds for local flood warning system for Lake Wilson; requires matching federal funds.

TGO, WAM

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HIGHWAY ACCESS IMPROVEMENT IN PUNA.

Appropriates funds to department of Hawaiian home lands to improve the access road from Keaau-Pahoa Road (Highway 130) to the Maku'u Farmers Market in Puna.

TGO, WAM

RELATING TO HIGHWAY HAZARD EVALUATION DATA.

Ensures that the courts respect the prohibition against discovery and admission of safety hazard analysis, including the data gathered. Clarifies that the motor vehicle accident reports completed by the police of the various counties is included in the prohibition against discovery.

RELATING TO THE HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT SPECIAL FUND.

Prevents any monies in the Highway Development Special Fund from lapsing or being transferred to the general fund.

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Senator Lorraine R. Inouye