STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2874
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2650
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2650, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to exempt a passenger motor vehicle owned by a member of the Hawaii National Guard or any of the federal reserves from state and county vehicular fees and taxes.
To qualify for the exemption, the member had to be domiciled in Hawaii and in good standing.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Further requiring that the member:
(A) Be a member of a unit;
(B) Have been ordered to active federal service; and
(C) Have been deployed during calendar year 2005 to a combat zone or a qualified hazardous duty area, as designated by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; and
(2) Limiting the exemption to a three-year period; and
(3) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2650, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2650, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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