STAND. COM. REP. NO. 627

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1014

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1014, S.D. 1, 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 provide the Director of Transportation greater authority over the motor vehicle inspection program.

     More specifically, this measure expands the Director's authority to adopt administrative rules to administer and enforce the program, including the maximum inspection fee to vehicle owners and fees collected from inspection stations.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

     Your Committee finds that there is a need to upgrade the methods and procedures of state motor vehicle inspections because the current system is inefficient in that legislation needs to be enacted in order to amend an inspection fee.  Your Committee finds that by authorizing the Director of Transportation to administer and enforce the motor vehicle inspection program through the administrative rule process, this measure provides a more efficient means of making changes to the program and still allows for input from the public.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical correction to the text of section 248-26, HRS, on page 2 to make it consistent with the printed version of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     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. 1014, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1014, S.D. 2.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair