STAND. COM. REP. NO. 10

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 643

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 643 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXCESSIVE SPEEDING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the court to order the forfeiture of any vehicle owned by the defendant that is used in the commission of the instant offense of excessive speeding if the defendant was convicted of least two prior convictions for the same offense within five years to the instant offense.

     Excessive speeding occurs when the vehicle is driven at a speed in excess of:  (1) the applicable state or county speed limit by thirty miles per hour or more; or (2) eighty miles per hour or more irrespective of the applicable state or county speed limit.  Your Committee finds that anyone having two prior convictions of excessive speeding is a hazard on the road to other drivers.  This measure is in the interest of protecting the public health, safety, and welfare.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 643, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 643, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and International Affairs,

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair