STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3339

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2643
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2643, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase from $2 to $5 the
fee for a certificate of registration for a motor vehicle other
than a U-drive motor vehicle.

     Furthermore, this bill repeals the requirement that the
counties use the fee revenues for highway beautification
activities and adds the requirement that the counties use the fee
revenues to defray the costs of disposing derelict as well as
abandoned vehicles.  Accordingly, this bill changes the name of
the revolving fund from "the highway beautification and disposal
of abandoned vehicles revolving fund" to "the disposal of
abandoned or derelict vehicles revolving fund".

     Your Committee has amended this bill by authorizing the
counties to increase the fee by ordinance to a maximum of $5 for
a certificate of registration for a motor vehicle other than a
U-drive motor vehicle as long as the additional fee revenues
generated by the fee increase is used to defray the costs of
disposing of both abandoned and derelict vehicles.


 
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     Your Committee has further amended this bill by retaining
the highway beautification purposes of the fee revenues and by
renaming the revolving fund to "the highway beautification and
disposal of abandoned or derelict vehicles revolving fund".

     Your Committee finds that the measure as amended provides
the counties with the financial resources necessary to dispose of
abandoned and derelict vehicles in a timely manner.

     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 H.B. No.
2643, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2643,
H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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