Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2508 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to increase from $250 to $1,000 the value of an abandoned vehicle for which public auction requirements may be waived.

Furthermore, this measure removes the requirement for the value of the vehicle to be appraised.

Your Committee finds that, even if public auction requirements may be waived, public notice of the vehicle's disposal is still required. The present law requires that public advertisement must be made once in a newspaper of general circulation.

Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that the notice requirement conform to the existing public notice requirements that are otherwise generally applicable to government agencies. With regard to the disposal of abandoned vehicles through other than a public auction, the public notice laws require publication in a daily or weekly publication of county-wide circulation in the affected county.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2508, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2508, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.