STAND. COM. REP. NO. 551-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2751
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2751, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enable law enforcement
officers to determine whether a motor vehicle is in compliance
with the motor vehicle insurance laws by establishing a database
of insured vehicles that are identified by vehicle identification
numbers.  Insurers would be required to update the database
within 48 hours of the issuance, cancellation, nonrenewal, or
lapse of a motor vehicle insurance policy.

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the
Honolulu Police Department testified in support of this measure.
State Farm Insurance Companies and the Hawaii Insurers Council
opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Reducing the appropriations to $1 per county for
          purposes of further discussion; and

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


 
 
 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2751, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2751, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair