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 H.B. No. 494 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.

This measure is designed to eliminate inconsistencies in the manner by which traffic infraction cases arising under chapter 291D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are adjudicated. Your Committee also finds that this measure also extends the time period by which an answer to a notice of a traffic infraction must be filed from fifteen days to twenty-one days.

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 H.B. No. 494, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.