Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Intergovernmental Affairs and Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 78, H.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit a person from manufacturing, selling, displaying, permitting to be displayed, or possessing any reproduction, imitation, or facimile of a license plate with a similar design, shape, size, and color as the official license plate.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Department of Customer Services and the Honolulu Police Department.

Your Committees agree with the intent of this measure, which is to prohibit fraudulent license plates that can be affixed to stolen vehicles, making detection difficult and defeating police efforts to apprehend criminals.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Intergovernmental Affairs and Transportation and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 78, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.