STAND. COM. REP. NO. 58

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 30

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 30 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase from ten to twenty business days the time after mailing of a notice to the owner of an abandoned vehicle during which the owner may repossess the vehicle before the vehicle may be subject to disposal.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Credit Union League and EAN Holdings, LLC operating collectively as "Enterprise".  Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from the Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu.

     Your Committees find that extending the time in which the owner of an abandoned vehicle may repossess that vehicle from custody is warranted, particularly with respect to rental car companies with large fleets of vehicles whose lessees may abandon the vehicles.  This measure would help ensure that these companies have sufficient time to recover rental vehicles that may have been abandoned.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 30 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair