STAND. COM. REP. NO. 486

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1289

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 Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1289 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Limit moving violations arising from the operation of a motor vehicle that appear on traffic abstracts to those that resulted in convictions;

(2) Require the Traffic and Emergency Period Violations Bureaus to remove all alleged moving violations not resulting in a conviction from certified abstracts; and

(3) Appropriate funds.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Judiciary.

Your Committee finds that moving violations that do not result in convictions currently appear on certified abstracts furnished by the Traffic and Emergency Period Violations Bureaus of the District Courts. These alleged moving violations have barred individuals from both private and military employment. This measure will reduce the collateral consequences of court records by removing those alleged moving violations that do not result in convictions from certified traffic abstracts, thereby enhancing employment opportunities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the Traffic and Emergency Period Violations Bureaus of the district courts shall remove all dismissed moving violations that did not result in a conviction arising from the operation of a motor vehicle;

(2) Changing the appropriation from $100,000 to an unspecified amount;

(3) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050 to encourage further discussion; and

(4) 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 Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1289, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1289, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair