STAND. COM. REP. NO. 957

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1195

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1195, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Prohibit street parking within twenty feet on each side of any crosswalk or intersection;

(2) Specify that signs or curb markings shall not be required to restrict parking within twenty feet of a crosswalk or intersection; and

(3) Authorize prohibited parking enforcement regardless of the existence of signage or curb markings.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Department of Health, Hawaiʻi Bicycling League, and Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice.

Your Committee received comments in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee finds that a disproportionately high number of pedestrian injuries and deaths occur at crosswalks and intersections. Your Committee further finds that improving visibility at crosswalks and intersections will reduce traffic fatalities. Accordingly, this measure prohibits street parking within twenty feet of crosswalks to provide pedestrians and motorists with greater visibility.

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 S.B. No. 1195, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair