Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2020 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the counties to increase the motor vehicle registration fee from five dollars to ten dollars.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Hawaii State Association of Counties, two Maui Council Members, and one Kauai Council Member.

This measure would increase the fee from five to ten dollars. Current law provides that any increase over two dollars must be expended solely to defray the additional cost in the disposition and other related activities of abandoned or derelict vehicles.

Your Committee finds that this measure is important in assisting the counties with absorbing some of the escalating costs associated with the disposition of abandoned vehicles.

Your Committee has made a technical, nonsubstantive amendment.

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. 2020, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2020, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.