STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1733

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 602

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 602 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM REGISTRATION FEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the requirement that a disabled veteran must receive disability retirement pay from the armed forces to be exempt from the payment of annual vehicle registration fees.

The State Office of Veterans Services and one individual provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, 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 S.B. No. 602, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 602, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair