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. 826 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to simplify the registration requirements for rental or U-drive motor vehicles. Specifically, this bill:

Catrala-Hawaii testified in support of this bill. The Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that car rental companies generally replace their vehicles every two years and that allowing these companies to register their vehicles for a period of two years will ease registration burdens for both the car rental company and the county.

However, your Committee also understands that the counties must upgrade their computer system in order to accommodate this change in registration requirements and to process vouchers. The Department of Customer Services estimates that the cost for this upgrade will be approximately $250,000.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2005; and

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. 826, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 826, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.