STAND. COM. REP. NO.  453-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 1980

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1980 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC INFRACTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the district court to delete from a licensee's record any reference to a violation that the licensee has been found by the court not to have committed.

     The Judiciary did not support this bill.

     Currently, traffic abstracts retain records of traffic violations even if the licensee is found by the courts not to have committed the violation.  Because this may have a negative impact on the licensee, even when the licensee is not at fault, your Committee finds that this measure merits further consideration.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1980 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

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JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair