STAND. COM. REP. NO.1372

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 469

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 469, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to enable the counties to continue to administer, on behalf of the State, the program to issue parking placards to qualified persons with disabilities.

The City and County of Honolulu, the Honolulu Police Department, Advocates For Consumer Rights, and the County of Hawaii testified in support of this measure. The Disability and Communication Access Board supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Replacing the appropriation with $1 for the purpose of continued discussion;

(2) Changing the expending agency from the counties to the Department of Health; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 469, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 469, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair