STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1738

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 316

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 316, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to include vehicles valued at less than $1,000 in the list of derelict vehicles that may be removed by a county or Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

Your Committee did not receive any testimony on this measure.

Your Committee finds that abandoned vehicles create a public health and traffic safety hazard if they are not removed and properly disposed. Your Committee further finds that existing requirements for deeming a vehicle to be derelict can prevent counties or the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from removing abandoned vehicles in a timely fashion. Your Committee further finds that having an objective dollar value alone determine the threshold of abandonment may have unintentional consequences. This may result in the removal of vehicles that have had parts removed but are still functional and are not, in fact, abandoned.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that, as a prerequisite to determining if a vehicle is derelict, the removal of a part alone is not enough, and that the removal must render the vehicle inoperable.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 316, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 316, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair