STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2462

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2142

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Energy, to which was referred S.B. No. 2142 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to create the class C offense of endangering public transportation for tampering with a public highway or a facility of public transportation with intent to cause any damage, malfunction, nonfunction, theft, or unauthorized removal of material which would result in the creation of a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

     Your Committee finds that the vandalism and theft of copper wiring from street lights and traffic control devices have endangered public safety.  The intent of your Committee is provide another tool to discourage acts of vandalism and destruction of public property, and to protect the traveling public.

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Energy that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2142, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2142, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Energy,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair