STAND. COM. REP. 1055
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 88
S.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 88, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES OWNED BY MILITARY PERSONNEL,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to accommodate the highly mobile nature of military personnel by exempting them from having to obtain a seller's consent to remove a privately owned motor vehicle from the State when the vehicle is subject to an out-of-state lien.
The Department of the Army-Military Traffic Management Command testified in support of this bill.
The current statute requiring out-of-state lien consent creates problems for military personnel, because:
(1) Their motor vehicle records cannot be cleared of lien holders even after the loan has been paid in full;
(2) They do not receive clear title from the financial institution once the lien is satisfied; and
(3) The purchase of lien holders of record by larger financial institutions complicates the task of obtaining lien consent.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 88, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Military Affairs and Transportation,
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____________________________ JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair |
____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair |
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