STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2614

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2854

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2854 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOPEDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to enforce the requirement in Act 200, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016, to have annual registration and safety inspections for mopeds by establishing a fine for failure to register a moped.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Pearl City Neighborhood Board No. 21 and Moped Noise Mitigation Working Group.

Your Committees find that Act 200, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016, established a requirement that mopeds undergo annual registration and safety inspections as a means of resolving the ongoing issue of illegally modified mopeds. Approximately five thousand mopeds have been registered under the new law, but without enforcement, compliance is an unresolved issue. This measure will encourage compliance with the registration and safety inspection requirement by establishing a fine for moped owners who fail to register their mopeds.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2035, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2854, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2854, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair