STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2234

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2684

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Energy, to which was referred S.B. No. 2684 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to update the procedures pedestrians should follow at crosswalks by including instructions on what pedestrians should do while a countdown timer is operating.

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

Your Committee finds that this measure will provide consistency with the meaning of various pedestrian-control signals and clarify that pedestrians may finish their crossing when countdown numbers are displayed.

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 Energy that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2684, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2684, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair