Report Title:

Traffic Abstracts

Description:

Clarifies the content requirements for traffic abstracts.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1522
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO TRAFFIC ABSTRACTS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 287-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§287-3  Furnishing of operating records.  (a)  The traffic violations bureaus of the district courts, upon request, shall furnish to any person a certified abstract of the bureaus' record, if any, of any person [relating to all alleged moving violations and any convictions resulting therefrom, arising from the operation of a motor vehicle and any administrative license revocation pursuant to chapter 291E, part III and chapter 286, part XIV, as it was in effect on or before December 31, 2001].  The abstract shall report all:

(1) Unadjudicated allegations against the person for infractions or offenses arising from the operation of a motor vehicle;

(2) Unsatisfied judgments against the person for an infraction or offense arising from the operation of a motor vehicle;

(3) Judgments against the person for an infraction or offense arising from the operation of a motor vehicle, for a period of three years from the date of satisfaction; except that judgments convicting the person of drug- or alcohol-related offenses arising from the operation of a motor vehicle shall be reported for a period of ten years from the date of satisfaction and judgments permanently revoking the person's driver's license shall be reported without regard to date of entry or satisfaction of judgment;

(4) Administrative revocations of the person's driver's license pursuant to chapter 291E, part III; and

(5) Administrative revocations of the person’s driver’s license pursuant to chapter 286, part XIV, as it was in effect on or before December 31, 2001.

A judgment, whether civil or criminal, is satisfied when all court-ordered monetary assessments or fines imposed against the person have been paid and all court-ordered non-monetary sanctions have been complied with.

(b)  For any abstract furnished, the traffic violations bureaus may collect a fee, not to exceed $7, of which $5 shall be deposited into the general fund and $2 shall be deposited into the judiciary computer system special fund.

     [(b)] (c) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, all [alleged moving violations] allegations against a person for infractions or offenses arising from the operation of a motor vehicle, as well as any convictions [resulting therefrom], civil judgments against the person, or [any] administrative [license suspension] suspensions of the person's driver's license resulting therefrom pursuant to chapter 291A, shall not be included in a certified abstract of the bureaus' record."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2008.

INTRODUCED BY:

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