CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 39

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2013

RE:    S.B. No. 1214

       S.D. 1

       H.D. 2

       C.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam and Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 1214, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Abolish the Commission on Transportation;

     (2)  Authorize the counties to adopt ordinances to authorize the respective county police department or agent to apply a wheel boot to any motor vehicle for any parking violation and to collect a county fine to apply or remove the wheel boot; and

(3) Prohibit a person other than a person authorized by the county or the registered owner of a vehicle from applying a wheel boot to the vehicle.

     Your Committee on Conference finds that the Commission on Transportation was created as an advisory committee to the Department of Transportation and is no longer necessary.  Abolishing the Commission on Transportation will streamline the operations of the Department.

     Your Committee on Conference further finds that enforcement of parking violations is ineffective if the violator fails to pay a parking fine without other penalty.  Authorizing the police to apply a wheel boot as an additional penalty would require the payment of a fee in order to remove the wheel boot.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting language to prohibit a person or entity, including any county police department or agent, from applying or causing to be applied, a wheel boot to a motor vehicle located on any public or private street, roadway, or highway, as applicable, or on any public or private property, as applicable;

     (2)  Deleting the language authorizing the counties to adopt ordinances to authorize the county police department or agent to apply wheel boots and collect a fine to apply and remove a wheel boot; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1214, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1214, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Co-Chair	____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair
____________________________ KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Co-Chair	____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Co-Chair
	____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Co-Chair