Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2603, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide district court judges with the flexibility to impose enhanced sentences on drivers who drive without motor vehicle insurance.

The Judiciary and the Office of the Public Defender testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2603, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2603, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.