Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was recommitted S.B. No. 410, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the legal requirements for the interisland transfer of vehicles by eliminating the need for written consent from the vehicle's legal owner.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Young Brothers, Ltd.

Your Committee finds that this measure will help to streamline the process of shipping vehicles interisland. Often the registered owner and legal owner of a vehicle are different persons and in such cases, it can be difficult to obtain the legal owner's written consent.

Your Committee finds that under the amendments contained in this measure, the shipper must still verify the vehicle's registration and the registered owner's identification, and that it is unnecessary to also require that the registered owner track down the legal owner to obtain written consent. Your Committee finds that eliminating this requirement will not likely lead to more fraudulent interisland transfers.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the requirement that interisland shippers store shipping information in lieu of simply verifying the information.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 410, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 410, S.D. 2.