Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 988 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow an audible reverse warning system (system) on vehicles to be manually disengaged when reversing the vehicle under certain hours and conditions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Police Department and one individual.

This measure would allow the system to be turned off between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., and within 200 feet of a hospital or hotel or within a residential neighborhood, if certain precautions are taken to avoid accidents in the reversal. The system would turn itself off automatically after not more than three minutes.

The intent of this measure is to offer relief from the noise of a motor vehicle backup warning system while still providing the needed protection for pedestrians walking to the rear of the reversing vehicle.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 988 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.