STAND. COM. REP. NO.  886

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1154

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1154 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FUNDING FOR PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to cover the administrative costs of issuing parking placards that enable individuals with mobility disabilities to park in accessible parking stalls.  Specifically, this measure increases the State vehicle registration fee by $1 to fund the disabled person parking program.

The Disability and Communication Access Board supported this measure.  The Department of Transportation provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the vehicle registration fee increase to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1154, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1154, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair