STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2893

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2761
                                        H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2761, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the measure is to clarify requirements for
special number plates.

     Specifically, the measure removes the requirement that an
organization applying for a special number plate have at least
one hundred members; allows any vehicle owner, not only members,
to apply for an approved organization's special number plate; and
increases the maximum width of decals from two and one-half
inches to three inches.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure
from the University of Hawaii and Hawaii State Commission on the
Status of Women.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will simplify the
procedures for special number plates and make them more available
to the public and various organizations.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2761, H.D. 1, and recommends that

 
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it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third
Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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