STAND. COM. REP. NO.  696-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2350

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. 2350 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase public safety by amending existing law regarding the storage of open alcoholic beverage containers in a motor vehicle to meet the qualification requirements for federal highway safety funds.  Specifically, this bill:

(1)  Clarifies the conditions under which open alcoholic beverage containers may be kept in a vehicle not equipped with a trunk; and

(2)  Exempts the living quarters of a recreational vehicle, house coach, or house trailer, and any passenger within such a vehicle, from the open alcoholic beverage container provision for vehicles on any public street, road, or highway or at any scenic lookout.

The Department of Transportation testified in support of this measure.

     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. 2350 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair