Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2052 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the requirement of proof of financial responsibility for a traffic violation conviction does not apply to conviction or a license suspension or revocation of a provisional license.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Department of Customer Services, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and the Public Defender.

The requirement for proof of financial responsibility is intended for conviction of very serious traffic offenses, such as reckless or inattentive driving, or driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs. Your Committees find that a violation of the provisional license law does not constitute an offense that rises to the level of seriousness as contemplated by the proof of financial responsibility law.

Your Committees have made a conforming statutory amendment.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2052, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2052, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.