STAND. COM. REP. NO.  85

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 435

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 435 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOPEDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to promote traffic safety by requiring mopeds to:

     (1)  Be inspected annually;

     (2)  Display a certificate of inspection; and

     (3)  Be operated with an exhaust system that meets the              original manufacturer's specifications.

     Citizens Against Noise and an individual testified in support of this bill.  Cycle Imports Hawaii opposed this measure.

     Currently, mopeds do not need to possess a certificate of safety inspection to be ridden on Hawaii's roadways and moped noise as a result of modified exhaust systems continues to be a problem despite statutes governing moped noise levels.   Your Committee finds that requiring mopeds to be inspected annually and to be equipped with exhaust systems meeting the original manufacturer's specifications will ensure that safer mopeds will be operating on Hawaii's roadways and will also help alleviate moped noise.

     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 H.B. No. 435 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

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JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair