Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 209, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prevent fraudulent activity and violations, and to facilitate better enforcement of parking for persons with disabilities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Disability and Communication Access Board, Honolulu Police Department, Honolulu Customer Services Department, and Advocates for Consumer Rights.

Your Committee finds that our laws regarding parking for persons with disabilities are often abused and violated, at all levels of the process. Your Committee further finds that physicians sometimes fraudulently certify persons as disabled who are not. On the other end of the process, some persons allow others without disabilities to use their parking placards.

This measure would make it much more difficult to violate our laws regarding parking for persons with disabilities. This is especially important due to the scarcity of spaces reserved for disabled persons.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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