Honolulu, Hawaii
H.D. 1
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fourth State Legislature
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1528, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to make penalties to the Statewide Traffic Code consistent by amending its catch-all penalty provision to remove the reference to conviction since traffic infractions are civil not criminal and can therefore only result in a violation, not a conviction.
The Judiciary supported this bill.
Your Committee finds that the Legislature decriminalized many of the less serious traffic offenses in 1993; however, the catch-all penalty provision in the Code was not amended to remove inconsistent language. This bill would remedy that omission.
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. 1528, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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TOMMY WATERS, Chair |
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