STAND. COM. REP. NO. 803

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 118

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 118 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRAFFIC FINES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize each county to designate certain sections of county highways as areas where the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles is prohibited or restricted.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and Hawai‘i State Association of Counties. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from two individuals.

Your Committee finds that there are many areas along state and county highways that are unsafe and hazardous due to illegally parked vehicles. Act 250, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019 (Act 250), established the State Highway Enforcement Program to enable the State and counties to enforce parking violations and provide for parking management-related improvements by imposing a surcharge as an additional penalty for violating laws prohibiting or restricting the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on state highways. This measure includes county highways within the Program by specifying that counties also may designate county highways where the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles is restricted or prohibited.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 118 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair