STAND. COM. REP. NO.  896-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2952

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2952, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide a dedicated source of funding to improve car rental facilities at state airports by:

     (1)  Allowing the Department of Transportation (DOT) to establish car rental customer facility charges (facility charges) by rule; and

     (2)  Establishing the Car Rental Customer Facility Charge Special Fund into which all proceeds from the facility charges must be deposited and used for the enhancement, renovation, operation, maintenance, and development of car rental customer facilities at state airports.

     Catrala Hawaii and Avis and Budget Rent A Car supported this bill.  Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company of Hawaii and Alamo Rent-A-Car and National Car Rental Company of Hawaii opposed this measure.  DOT, Tax Foundation of Hawaii, and Hawaii Insurers Council submitted comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2952, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2952, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair