STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2236

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2854

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. 2854 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOPEDS,"

begs 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 Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Pearl City Neighborhood Board No. 21, Moped Noise Mitigation Working Group, and one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Moped Doctors Inc. and one individual.

Your Committee finds that mopeds provide an inexpensive, reliable, and convenient mode of transportation, but illegally modified mopeds are detrimental to neighborhoods. Requiring mopeds to undergo annual registration and safety inspections helps resolve the ongoing issue of illegally modified mopeds, but without enforcement, compliance is an issue. Your Committee believes that establishing a fine for moped owners who fail to register their mopeds will lead to higher registration compliance.

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. 2854 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and 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