Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2335 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to eliminate the requirement that a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV) display a "slow moving vehicle" emblem when traveling on public roads.

Your Committee finds that current law restricts operation of NEVs to roads with a speed limit not greater than 35 miles per hour. Your Committee further finds that "slow moving vehicle" emblems are designed primarily for use on heavy machinery that is being driven on roads with a speed limit of greater than 35 miles per hour. Thus, your Committee agrees that repealing the requirement for NEVs to display "slow moving vehicle" emblems will ameliorate an unnecessarily burdensome requirement on NEV drivers.

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. 2335 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.