STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2622

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2714

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2714 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

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

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Disability and Communication Access Board and two individuals.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that use of a personal vehicle by disabled persons, in lieu of a county-subsidized paratransit service, results in substantial savings to taxpayers. Accordingly, your Committee believes that disability access modifications made to personal vehicles should be encouraged by excluding the weight of such modifications from the determination of motor vehicle weight taxes.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair