CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 42-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 3165

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

C.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 3165, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OPERATING A VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN INTOXICANT,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Amend the driver's license revocation period for first-time offenders convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant and persons who do not install an ignition interlock device;

(2) Allow for the early termination of a driver's license revocation;

(3) Require any person operating a vehicle with an ignition interlock device to have government-issued identification in their immediate possession;

(4) Amend the lookback period and sentencing requirements for violations of operating a vehicle after license and privilege have been suspended or revoked; and

(5) Amend the offense of circumventing or tampering with an ignition interlock device to include obscuring the camera lens or failing to provide a picture of the driver, and extend the lookback period.

Your Committee on Conference finds that operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and drugs continues to be a serious problem on Hawaii's roads. An ignition interlock device is an effective tool to prevent a person under the influence of alcohol from driving. This measure helps strengthen the State's ignition interlock device laws.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2023.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3165, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3165, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA Chair	____________________________ CHRIS LEE Chair
	____________________________ GIL RIVIERE Co-Chair
	____________________________ KARL RHOADS Co-Chair