STAND. COM. REP. NO. 809
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 1095
S.D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2025
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 1095 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LICENSE PLATES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to remove the decal size restrictions for special number plates.
Your Committee did not receive any testimony on this measure.
Your Committee finds that the establishment of special number plates for motor vehicles is overseen by the Director of Finance of the City and County of Honolulu and the county directors of finance of the counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii. Existing statute strictly regulates the size, design, and graphics authorized to be on a special number plate. Your Committee believes that existing law is restricting the artistic ingenuity in the creative process of designing a special number plate. Therefore, this measure will increase the decal size restrictions to allow artistic freedom in special number plate design.
Your Committee has
amended this measure by:
(1) Increasing the special design size parameters for decals on special number plates to be not larger than four inches wide by four inches high;
(2) Inserting legislative findings; 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 and Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1095, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1095, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts,
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________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair |
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