HI SR44

Requests the Department of Transportation to collaborate with the Honolulu Police Department and recommend increased penalties for habitually operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant (three or more prior convictions within ten years)

Current penalties for this Class C felony include an indeterminate term of five years imprisonment or mandatory imprisonment of at least ten days (with at least 48 hours served consecutively) as a condition of probation

Requested recommendations must include increased mandatory terms of imprisonment, vehicle impounding, implementation costs, and strategies to mitigate costs for implementing agencies

Department of Transportation must submit findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the convening of the 2011 Regular Session

Certified copies of the resolution to be sent to the Director of Transportation, Chief of the Honolulu Police Department, and the Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney