STAND. COM. REP. NO. 304

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 432

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 432 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the transferor and transferee of a motor vehicle to appear in person at the county Department of Motor Vehicles to execute the transfer.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Association of Counties. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Insurers Council; Copart, Inc.; American Property Casualty Insurance Association; and Insurance Auto Auctions, Inc. Your Committee received comments on this measure from Enterprise Holdings.

Your Committee finds that buyers and sellers of vehicles often provide false, illegible, or unusable contact information. This measure will assist the counties in keeping accurate and current records of vehicle transfers.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Exempting dealers and vehicles transferred as salvaged vehicles from the requirement to appear in person to transfer a vehicle title;

(2) Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) 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 that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 432, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 432, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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CHRIS LEE, Chair