STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1221

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1241

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1241, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ABANDONED VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend from ten to twenty days the number of days during which the legal and registered owner of an abandoned vehicle may repossess the vehicle before it may be subject to disposal.

     Your Committee finds that this measure establishes a more practical time frame for the owner of an abandoned vehicle to recover possession of that vehicle after it has been towed away. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1241, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1241, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair