Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2065, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish that unpaid parking citations do not prevent the transfer of registration or ownership of a motor vehicle.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the City and County of Honolulu Police Department and the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association. No testimony in opposition to this measure was received by your Committee. Written comments were submitted by the Judiciary.

Your Committee finds that current law attaches parking citations to the vehicle rather than the vehicle's owners. This prevents the registration and transfer of ownership to a new owner until the parking fines of the old owner are paid. Your Committee further finds that the implementation of the current law places undue hardship on the new owner of a motor vehicle and that this measure place responsibility on the proper party.

Your Committee has amended this measure with a technical amendment that clarifies that the payment of the unpaid citation is the responsibility of the registered owner of the motor vehicle at the time the violation was incurred.

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