Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2504 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the State to reimburse the counties for issuing windshield parking placards for parking for disabled persons, and to require counties to issue placards on behalf of the State.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the City and County of Honolulu Department of Customer Services, the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Disability and Communication Access Board, and one individual.

Current law gives the counties discretion whether or not to issue temporary removable windshield placards. This measure requires the counties to do so, and requires the State to reimburse the counties for the costs.

Your Committees find that the parking for disabled persons program can be effective only with the issuance of windshield placards. The costs of placards is an expense that either the State or the counties should bear. Your Committees consider it fair for the State to ultimately bear that cost.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting references to an adjustment for inflation; and

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2504, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2504, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.