STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2665

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2902

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2902 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the efficiency of the motor vehicle inspection program overseen by the Department of Transportation.

     Specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Expands the authority of the Director of Transportation over required motor vehicle and motor carrier vehicle inspections by allowing the Director to adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to adjust the costs for inspections and fees collected from inspection stations;

     (2)  Reduces the amount of insurance information required on an inspection certificate;

     (3)  Repeals provisions allowing an inspection station to replace an unexpired inspection sticker issued by the station without re-inspecting the vehicle if the sticker was lost, stolen, or destroyed; and

     (4)  Repeals provisions establishing the maximum allowable fee for each safety inspection performed.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.  The Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu submitted written comments on the measure.

     Your Committee finds that the current system of regulating motor vehicle inspections needs to be improved because legislation is required before inspection fees can be adjusted, and certain insurance information currently required on inspection certificates can instead be stored on computers for easy retrieval.  Your Committee further finds that requiring that a vehicle be inspected before an inspection sticker that is lost, stolen, or destroyed can be replaced will help to promote vehicle safety.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2902, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2902, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair