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. 3272 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to reimburse the counties for the remaining balance of their costs for issuing parking placards to persons with disabilities on behalf of the State.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, the Disability and Communication Access Board, City and County of Honolulu-Division of Motor Vehicles, County of Maui Department of Finance, the Mayor of County of Hawaii, and one individual.

Your Committees find that having the counties administer the parking placard program for persons with disabilities has been effective and efficient, and placards have been issued in a timely manner. The appropriation will reimburse the counties for the remaining balance of their actual costs for the 2005-2006 fiscal year.

Your Committees have amended this measure as suggested by the Disability and Communication Access Board by changing the appropriation for the fiscal year from "2006-2007" to "2005-2006," changing the effective date to comport within that change and inserting the appropriate amount for each county.

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. 3272, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3272, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.