STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2293

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3049

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3049 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to impose an importation fee for motor vehicles that are imported into the State and for the importation fee to be paid to the county that is the final destination of the vehicle and expended for the purpose of disposing of abandoned vehicles.

Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Automobile Dealers' Association.

Your Committees find that there are over fifty thousand new vehicles brought into this State every year, without accounting for people shipping their cars to the State when they move to Hawaii. Your Committees also find that removing cars from this State can be onerous, resulting in abandoned vehicles that are an eyesore to the community. While there are already county efforts to dispose abandoned vehicles, your Committees note that the cost of disposal can vary drastically, in response to the fluctuation of metal prices, and that additional county funds to pay for disposal can minimize the impact of fluctuating costs.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3049 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Energy and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair