Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations and Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 88 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to exempt military personnel from the requirement of obtaining a seller's consent to remove a privately owned vehicle from the State when the vehicle is subject to an out-of-state lien.

Although no testimony was submitted on this measure, your Committees believe that it may be prudent to exempt military personnel from the requirement of obtaining the seller's consent to remove a vehicle from the State.

By the nature of their service, military members and their families are highly mobile, and may be called to different stations of duty at any time. Because of this, it may be difficult for military personnel to obtain a seller's consent before removing a vehicle from the State.

Your Committees have amended this measure to insert a defective effective date. Your Committees believe that this issue should be reviewed further before any final decision on this measure is made.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations and Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 88, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 88, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.