Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 426 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is promote highway beautification and assist counties in defraying the costs of disposal of abandoned or derelict vehicles by allowing vehicle registration fees to be increased by county ordinance up to a maximum of $10.

The Chair of the Maui County Council and a number of Maui County Council members testified in support of this bill. Superstar Hawaii Transit Service opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that significant increases in the number of abandoned and derelict vehicles being discarded on Hawaii's roadways degrade the beauty of our island state and pose a danger to the public, creating unsafe driving conditions on our highways. Removal of these vehicles should be performed as rapidly as possible. Providing the counties with a funding mechanism will aid the counties with this task.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 426 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.