STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3224

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 122

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.C.R. No. 122 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO CORRECT THE DEFECTS OF THE VEHICLE SAFETY INSPECTION DECALS AND TO DEVELOP PROTOCOLS THAT WILL ENSURE QUALITY CONTROL STANDARDS OF ITS PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Transportation to take certain actions regarding vehicle safety inspection decals.

     Specifically, the measure requests the Department to correct the defects of the decals and to develop protocols that will ensure quality control standards of its programs.

     The Department of Transportation submitted written comments on the measure.

     Your Committee finds that the current vehicle safety inspection decals can easily be altered to change or erase expiration dates, making it difficult for law enforcement to enforce chapter 286, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which requires an annual vehicle safety inspection.  Your Committee further finds that the Department of Transportation should develop or implement a procedure to ensure that quality control standards are satisfied.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 122 and recommends its adoption.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair