STAND. COM. REP. NO.  73

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 892

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 892 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FUNDING FOR PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support services for the disabled by increasing the state motor vehicle registration fee by $1 and designating the increased amount to the Disability and Communication Access Board Special Fund to fund the parking program for persons with disabilities.

 

     The Disability and Communication Access Board and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Providing that it will be repealed on January 1, 2019; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.


     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 H.B. No. 892, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 892, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Health.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair