Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1268 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require periodic six-month inspections for rental or U-drive motor vehicles that are two years or older.

The Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu and Catrala-Hawaii submitted testimony in support of the bill. The Department of Transportation submitted testimony in opposition of the bill.

Your Committee finds that rental and U-haul vehicles are on the road for shorter periods of time than new cars sold to the public, and upon return to the rental company the vehicles are serviced and inspected in preparation for the next rental customer. Any defects found on a vehicle are usually corrected before it is returned to the rental fleet.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1268 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.