Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 609 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to promote highway beautification and assist counties in defraying the costs of disposal of abandoned or derelict vehicles by allowing vehicle registration fees to be increased by county ordinance up to a maximum of $10.

The Chair of the Maui County Council and a number of Maui County Council members testified in support of this bill.

Significant increases in the number of abandoned and derelict vehicles being discarded on Hawaii's roadways degrade the beauty of our island state and pose a danger to the public by creating unsafe driving conditions on our highways. Your Committee finds that removal of these vehicles should be accomplished as rapidly as possible and that providing the counties with a funding mechanism will aid the counties with this task.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 609, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 609, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.