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. 3050 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the court to waive the parking citation fine if the lessor of the rental car provides the court with the name and address of the lessee of the cited vehicle within sixty days of the notice sent to the lessor.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from CATRALA, Cendant Car Rental Group, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc., Alamo Rent A Car, and National Car Rental. Comments were received from the Judiciary.

Testimony on this measure indicates that the problem to be addressed occurs when the driver of a rental car receives a parking citation, turns the car back to the rental company, and then the company receives the citation as the registered owner and must pay the $5 statutory citation. Meanwhile the driver is gone, and avoids the fine. This measure would absolve the company of liability to pay the fine if the company furnishes the court with the name and address of the rental car driver.

Your Committee notes the testimony of CATRALA that it will work with the Judiciary to iron out the problems and assist in the technical operations of administering this measure. It is on this basis that your Committee passes out this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure to provide for an effective date of January 1, 2005, at the request of the Judiciary.

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. 3050, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3050, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.