Bill Text: HI SB574 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Excessive Speeding; Repeat Offender; Forfeiture of Vehicle

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-12 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. [SB574 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB574-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 190

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 574

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 574 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXCESSIVE SPEEDING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the court to order posting of a bond equal to the market value of the vehicle used in the commission of an excessive speeding offense within five years of two prior convictions for excessive speeding, with return of the bond contingent on certain conditions.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from one individual.  Comments on this measure were received from Enterprise.

 

     Your Committee finds that the penalty of posting a bond would be a significant deterrent for a person who has committed the

violation of excessive speeding more than twice within five years.  The deterrent reduce the risk of death, serious injury, and property damage on Hawaii's highways.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 574 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and International Affairs,

 

		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair