CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. -0 106-06
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: S.B. No. 2065
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
C.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2065, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this measure is to clarify that:
(1) The responsibility for unpaid parking fines rests with the registered owner of the motor vehicle incurring the parking citation at the time of the violation;
(2) Unpaid parking fines do not prevent the transfer of the motor vehicle's registration and title; and
(3) Certain restrictions on the operation of mopeds apply to two-wheeled mopeds.
Your Committee finds that current law attaches parking infractions to the vehicle rather than the vehicle's owner, which prevents the registration and transfer of ownership to a new owner until the parking fines are paid. The intent of this measure is to make parking infraction attach to the prior owner of the vehicle who incurred the infraction, thereby allowing the new owner to register and transfer the ownership of the vehicle.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting provisos making unpaid parking fines rest with the registered owner of the motor vehicle incurring the parking citation at the time of the violation, which is superfluous;
(2) Deleting language relating to moped operation, which does not comport with the title of the measure; and
(3) Changing the effective date to upon approval and to retroactively apply to vehicles that have been prevented from transfer by reason of the existing law.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2065, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2065, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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____________________________ JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Co-Chair |
____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair |
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Co-Chair |
____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Co-Chair |
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____________________________ RON MENOR, Co-Chair |
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