Bill Text: HI HB1181 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Motor Vehicle; Under the Influence; Habitual Offender

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Carroll, Coffman, Hanohano, Har, Kawakami, Ward excused (6). [HB1181 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1181-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  466

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1181

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1181 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect public safety by amending the definition of a habitual offender to include a person who was convicted of habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant within ten years of the instant offense of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant.

 

     The Department of Transportation, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Honolulu Police Department, Office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Kauai, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and Hawaii Bicycling League supported this measure.  The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the County of Maui supported this measure with amendments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Clarifying that a single prior conviction for habitually operating a vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant within ten years of the instant offense will trigger a felony charge under section 291E-61.5(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1181, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1181, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair