Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2488 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a program to issue removable windshield placards to qualified persons with disabilities.

Your Committee finds disabled motor vehicle drivers who meet certain eligibility criteria are able to receive parking placards that allow the driver to park in certain stalls designed and reserved for them. Furthermore, your Committee finds that the counties have issued parking placards to persons with disabilities since 1984 for a small fee to recoup costs. However, under recent court rulings under the Americans with Disabilities Act, counties are no longer able to charge this fee. This measure is designed to help the counties cover the administrative costs of the program for the fiscal year 2002-2003.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2488, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2488, S.D. 1.