STAND. COM. REP. NO.  376

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 898

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 898 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARKED VEHICLES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to repeal unnecessary rulemaking provisions in the Hawaii Revised Statutes by removing the Department of Health's authority to adopt rules pertaining to human habitation within parked vehicles on roadways, streets, or highways; other public property between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.; or while the vehicle is parked on private property without proper authorization.

 

     The Department of Health submitted testimony in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 898 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

 

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MELE CARROLL, Chair

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair