Bill Text: HI SB337 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Statewide Traffic Code; Dangerous Wheels

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to TRN, JUD, referral sheet 30 [SB337 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB337-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 732

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 337

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 337, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to prohibit the use of certain types of wheels that are considered to be dangerous.

 

     More specifically, this measure prohibits the use of any wheel, wheel cover, hubcap, lug nut or lug cap, prong, or any ornamentation affixed to any of the aforementioned items that uses aftermarket parts and extends out two inches or more past the wheel's rim.

 

     Your Committee finds that modified wheels have a propensity to cause vehicle accidents that result in severe injury and property damage.  This measure will penalize their use as a petty misdemeanor. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 337, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 337, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

____________________________

DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 

 

 

 

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