STAND. COM. REP. NO.1088

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 209

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 209, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to amend the State's law regarding parking for persons with disabilities to prevent fraudulent activity and violations, and to facilitate better enforcement by:

(1) Establishing a petty misdemeanor penalty for a physician who fraudulently assists an unqualified person to obtain a disabled parking placard;

(2) Allowing the counties to charge a replacement fee for lost, stolen, or mutilated parking and identification placards, unless applicants for new cards submit police verification;

(3) Establishing a petty misdemeanor penalty for a person who fraudulent manufactures or alters a disabled parking placard;

(4) Establishing procedures for the issuance of an identification card which shall accompany the issuance of a disabled parking placard;

(5) Establishing fines for public or private entities that fail to comply with disabled parking rules;

(6) Allowing a person with a disability to obtain a maximum of two disabled parking placards;

(7) Increasing the penalties for unlawfully using a disabled parking placard; and

(8) Making other technical, stylistic changes to Hawaii's disabled parking law for the purpose of clarity.

Testimony in support was submitted by the Disability and Communication Access Board, the County of Hawaii, the Honolulu Police Department, the Honolulu Department of Customer Services, Advocates for Consumer Rights, Maui Economic Opportunity, and members of the public.

Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the requirement that the identification cards include a photograph. In addition, your Committee has made further technical, stylistic changes for the purpose of clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 209, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 209, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair