STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2157
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2732
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2732 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ILLEGAL PARKING UPON BIKEWAYS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to set a minimum fine of $100 for driving or parking a vehicle on a bicycle lane or bicycle pathway.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu, and one individual.
Section 291C-123, Hawaii Revised Statutes, establishes a maximum fine of $500, but a minimum fine of $35 is usually ticketed by an enforcing officer for driving or parking a vehicle on a bicycle lane or pathway. Your Committee finds that obstruction of bicycle lanes and bicycle paths by motorists is a real and present danger and poses a safety hazard to bicyclists and to neighborhoods. Accordingly, the intent of your Committee is to deter illegal parking upon bicycle lanes and bicycle paths by statutorily imposing a minimum fine of $100 for those respective offenses.
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. 2732, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2732, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and International Affairs,
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____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair |
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