STAND. COM. REP. NO. 692

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 663

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 663 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the fine for speeding in a school zone or construction area.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Maui Police Department, Kihei Community Association, Hawaii Construction Alliance, and Hawaii Strategic Highway Safety Plan.

     Your Committee finds that school zones and construction areas have significant pedestrian traffic.  Setting higher fines for speeding violations is one method to deter motorists from operating vehicles at dangerous speeds that threaten the vulnerable pedestrians who frequent these areas.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 663 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair