STAND. COM. REP. NO. 544

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 107

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 107 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE REVOCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify the law on administrative revocation of driver licenses by allowing the Administrative Director of the Courts to authorize a hearing to review a revocation decision, provided that the hearing be held:

     (1)  With the consent of the respondent, in a county other than the county in which the notice of administrative revocation was held; or

(2)  By telephonic, video, or other electronic means.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Administrative Driver's License Revocation Office operations currently require almost daily travel between islands in order to allow statewide administrative hearings to be conducted in the county of arrest.  The cost is up to $1,000 of travel per week, constituting the bulk of Administrative Driver's License Revocation Office operational expenditures.

     Your Committee finds that this measure would enable the Administrative Driver's License Revocation Office to conduct hearings in a more cost efficient manner. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 107 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair