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 S.B. No. 706, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the suspension of the driver's licenses of a person under the age of twenty-one who violates laws relating to the consumption, possession, or use of alcohol.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor, the Department of the Attorney General, the Department of Health, the Department of Education, the Office of Youth Services, a member of the Kauai County Council, the Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, the Honolulu Police Department, the Hawaii Food Industry Association, Mothers Against Drunk Driving-Hawaii Chapter, and three individuals. Testimony in opposition the measure was submitted by the Office of the Public Defender.

This measure requires the driver's license suspension of an individual under the age of twenty-one for a mandatory one hundred eighty day period for violating laws prohibiting the consumption, possession, or use of alcohol by individuals under the age of twenty-one. Your Committee finds that this measure is designed to address concerns in the community relating to the dangers associated with underage drinking and driving.

Your Committee has amended this measure by including a savings clause.

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. 706, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 706, S.D. 2.