STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2235

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2828

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 Transportation and Energy, to which was referred S.B. No. 2828 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 avoid the inefficiencies of the existing system of state motor vehicle inspections, where legislation is needed to change the inspection fee, by providing the Director of Transportation authority to amend administrative rules for the administration and enforcement of motor carrier vehicle safety inspections.

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

Your Committee finds that the existing motor vehicle inspection system is inefficient in that it requires legislation to be passed every time a change to the program is needed or desired. In contrast, amending administrative rules is more efficient, thereby improving safety, service, and value. Your Committee notes that the interests of the public are still protected by public hearings prior to any administrative rule amendment.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that the fees currently set in statute shall remain in place until new fees that are established by the Director of Transportation through administrative rules; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Energy that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2828, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2828, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Energy,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair