STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1566

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 277

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 277, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FEES FOR WINDSHIELD PLACARDS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify procedures for the issuance of windshield placards for persons with disabilities and for the State's reimbursement to counties.  

     The bill accomplishes this by requiring the issuing counties to deposit all fees collected for issuing new or replacement placards into the state general fund.

     The Disability and Communication Access Board submitted comments in support of the bill.

Your Committee finds that this measure will clarify and streamline the collection of fees and the reimbursement to counties by reducing paperwork and eliminating a county's possible collection of duplicate fees for the same placard:  once in fees collected from a license applicant and again in reimbursement from the State.

     Your Committee amended the bill by changing the effective date from July 1, 2007, to upon approval.

     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 H.B. No. 277, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 277, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair