STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1087-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2589

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2589, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTORCYCLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the Department of Transportation to designate shoulders upon which the Department may authorize the driving of two-wheeled motorcycles under certain conditions.

The Department of Transportation and one individual testified in support of this measure. The Honolulu Police Department testified in opposition. Street Bikers United Hawaii provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the condition that drivers of two-wheeled motorcycles may maneuver their vehicles onto a shoulder as designated by an official traffic-control device; and

(2) 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. 2589, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2589, H.D. 2.

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

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Chair