STAND. COM. REP. NO.  151-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1181

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1181, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the offense of habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant to include operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant after at least one conviction within the prior ten years of habitually operating a motor vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.

The Department of Transportation, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Hawaii, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai, Maui Police Department, Honolulu Police Department, Hawaii Police Department, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving HAWAII testified in support of this measure. The Office of the Public Defender testified in opposition.

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

     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 H.B. No. 1181, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1181, H.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair