STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3163

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2508

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2508, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAIVER OF ABANDONED VEHICLE PUBLIC AUCTION REQUIREMENTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that if the appraised value of a vehicle is less than $1,000, the requirements for public auction of the vehicle may be waived and the vehicle disposed of after public notice pursuant to law.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Department of Customer Services; Mayor of Maui; and Windward Ahupua`a Alliance.

Your Committees find that this measure would allow for the faster disposal of towed abandoned vehicles while maintaining the public notice requirements for the owner to claim a vehicle before it is finally disposed. Vehicles that are damaged or missing parts and are in such poor condition as to be valued at less than $1,000 are rarely claimed by its owner or sold at public auction.

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2006.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2508, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2508, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Government Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair