STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1562-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2065

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2065, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Stipulate that responsibility for unpaid parking fines rests with and, after transfer of ownership, remains with the registered owner of a motor vehicle incurring the parking citation at the time of the violation; and

(2) Establish that a registered owner's unpaid parking fines do not prevent transfer of the motor vehicle's registration and title.

The Honolulu Police Department and Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association supported this bill. The Judiciary submitted comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting its purpose section;

(2) Rendering its provisions internally consistent, by:

(A) Repeating the proviso language added to subsection 291D-7(e), Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), in paragraphs 291D-7(b)(2), (b)(3), (c)(2), and (c)(3), HRS; and

(B) Changing "this subsection shall not prevent the issuance or renewal of the motor vehicle's certificate of registration and transfer of title to the motor vehicle to another person" added to section 291D-10, HRS, to "this subsection shall not prevent transfer of title to the motor vehicle to another person," consistent with the new provision regarding the court clerk's clearance to effectuate registration and transfer of title to a new owner;

(3) Inserting language that clarifies that certain restrictions on driving mopeds apply only to two-wheeled mopeds;

(4) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2096, to encourage further discussion; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2065, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2065, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair