STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3250

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1692

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1692 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to change the fines imposed for mobile electronic device violations.

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

Your Committee finds that the use of mobile electronic devices while driving is highly dangerous, and that enforcement of laws governing such activity needs to be reevaluated. Therefore, the purpose of this measure is to change the fines imposed for mobile electronic device violations.

Your Committee has amended this measure by depositing fines for mobile electronic device violations that occur in school zones into the safe routes to school program special fund.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1692, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1692, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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CHRIS LEE, Chair