STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1961-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2714

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2714, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE WEIGHT TAX,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to exclude the weight of disability access modifications made to non-commercial vehicles from the determination of the vehicle's net weight for purposes of levying the state and county motor vehicle weight tax.

The Department of Transportation, Disability and Communication Access Board, and two individuals supported this measure. The Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments on this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting its purpose section; and

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

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. 2714, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2714, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair