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March 29, 2022, HSAC Meeting Agenda Fags 1 4 t � UN�4�4 Article III, section 14. "...Each law shall embrace but one subject, which shall be expressed in its title." FIB 1448 — Relating to traffic fines. "Surcharge"— an additional tax, cost or similar compulsory payment; `fine"— a pecuniary punishment of a person convicted of an offense. "Every enactment of the legislature is presumptively constitutional, and a party challenging a statute has the burden of showing unconstitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt." Concerns of the Hawaii County Police Department "After reviewing this measure with staff, we have some concerns and at this time, would not be supporting the bill as written; in fact its the consensus that we should actually oppose the measure. We can appreciate the fact that the Legislature is recognizing that all of the fines collected for traffic violations are deposited into the State General Fund and does not directly support the County Police Departments who are conducting the enforcement, issuing the citations, testifying in court, etc. In the past there were measures before the Legislature seeking to have the fines collected on uncontested citations to be sent to the County as opposed to being deposited into the State General fund, which we believe would be more appropriate. The way this measure is drafted will now support the argument from the community that the police departments issue citations to pad their budgets or have a quota of how many citations to issue to raise funds, as it stands now with the current structure this is easily overcome, which is why the uncontested citation fines were more acceptable. Of concern with this measure is that it's not clear as to what will be expected from the County Police Departments as it relates to "Establish a County Highway Enforcement Program within each county police department..." as currently all of the County Police Departments have the authority to enforce