Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 77 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure

from the Hawaii Transportation Association. The DOT supported the provisions relating to the vehicle identification card and mudguards. The DOT submitted testimony in opposition to repealing some of the authority of the Director of Transportation.

According to testimony of the DOT, the vehicle identification card and mudguards are presently required by administrative rules. Therefore, this measure is a codification of that provision.

Your Committee agrees with the DOT that reducing the powers of the Director of Transportation is unnecessary and unwarranted. This is particularly the case with regard to homeland security measures which the Director needs to be able to implement administratively.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the reduction of the powers of the Director of Transportation.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 77, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 77, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing.