Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2850, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the mandatory minimum fines for littering violations, including littering from a motor vehicle, littering in public, and criminal littering.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Windward Ahupua`a Alliance and an individual. The Office of the Public Defender submitted testimony in opposition to the measure.

Your Committee finds that littering is a problem in our State. The current minimum fines for littering are not sufficient to deter people from littering. An increase in the minimum fine from $25 for littering from a motor vehicle, littering in public, and criminal littering will encourage people to keep Hawaii clean.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 2850, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2850, S.D. 2.