STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1121-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2902

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 2902, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTIONS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the efficiency of the motor vehicle inspection program by expanding the authority of the Director of Transportation over required motor vehicle and motor carrier vehicle inspections by allowing the Director to adopt rules to adjust the costs for inspections and fees collected from inspection stations.

The Department of Transportation; Department of Customer Services City and County of Honolulu; and Hawaii Transportation Association testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Allowing for the replacement of faded inspection stickers, in addition to lost, stolen, or destroyed stickers, without inspection;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2014; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Consumer Protection & Commerce that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2902, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2902, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair