Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 993 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify that the reconstructed vehicles law does not apply to counties with a population of under 500,000, if those counties have adopted ordinances regulating the inspection and certification of reconstructed vehicles.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Impact Dynamics Company and a dentist from the Big Island. The Department of Transportation and Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu testified in opposition to this measure.

Currently, the City and County of Honolulu is the only county administering the Director of Transportation's rules relating to the inspection and certification of reconstructed vehicles. Thus, a reconstructed vehicle that may be operating in the counties of Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii may not be legally operated in the City and County of Honolulu unless it is inspected and certified by the City and County of Honolulu, and a reconstructed vehicle permit is obtained.

Your Committee believes that each county should be subject to a reconstructed vehicle ordinance, as a matter of public safety.

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 H.B. No. 993, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.