Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 79 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the prohibition on the transfer of organization license plates upon the sale of a vehicle assigned the license plate, and to allow a county to remove an organization from the program if the organization does not achieve the requisite number of 150 participants within three years.

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

Current law requires that upon the sale of a vehicle with an organization license plate, the seller must remove the plates and obtain regular issued plates even if the buyer wishes to retain the plates. This measure would allow a seller to transfer the plates to the buyer without the payment of an additional fee for replacement plates prior to the sale.

According to testimony, the required minimum number of members of an organization entitled to have a special license plate is 150. Some organizations fail to qualify after three years and thus become an administrative burden to the counties. Your Committees find that these organizations should therefore be allowed to be dropped by the county from the program.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 79, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.