STAND. COM. REP. 103

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1572

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1572, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify the disabled parking law by:

(1) Defining the term "access aisle";

(2) Amending the definitions of "parking space reserved for persons with disabilities", "persons with a disability", "removable windshield placard", and "temporary removable windshield placard";

(3) Clarifying the law governing the issuance of a temporary removable windshield parking placard;

(4) Clarifying the law governing the issuance of identification cards;

(5) Clarifying the law governing the replacement of a lost, stolen, or mutilated placard or identification card;

(6) Clarifying the law governing the fraudulent manufacture or alteration of placards and identification cards;

(7) Clarifying the law governing metered parking privileges;

(8) Giving the Disability and Communications Access Board (DCAB) the ability to adopt rules regarding the revocation or decertification of removable windshield placards and identification cards;

(9) Giving DCAB the ability to establish fees for placards;

(10) Clarifying the law governing penalties for parking in spaces reserved for persons with disabilities; and

(11) Specifying that law enforcement personnel and commissioned volunteers have access to private property to enforce disabled parking laws if the property contains a disabled parking stall.

A concerned citizen testified in support of this measure. DCAB, the City and County of Honolulu Department of Customer Services, and Honolulu Police Department testified in support of the intent of this measure.

Violation of disabled parking laws continue to be a problem. These violations often result in the inability of disabled individuals to complete daily activities. Your Committee notes that clarification of these laws will greatly enhance the integrity of the statewide program on parking for persons with disabilities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Establishing as a new section under chapter 291, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the authority of law enforcement officers and commissioned volunteer enforcement officers to access private property to enforce disabled parking laws if the property contains a disabled parking space;

(2) Removing the requirement for a photo to be placed on an identification card for the disabled person who requests a disabled parking placard; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, conformity, and style.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1572, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1572, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

 

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JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair