STAND. COM. REP. NO. 102

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 955

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 955 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend the period in which an owner of a new car is exempted from obtaining a certificate of vehicle inspection from two years to three years from the date of purchase.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and EAN Holdings, LLC.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from Aloha Shell Service and two individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that new cars sold within the State of Hawaii are typically covered under warranties lasting a minimum of three years or thirty-six thousand miles.  As Hawaii drivers do not typically exceed thirty-six thousand miles within two or even three years of purchasing a new car, requiring drivers to obtain a certificate of inspection within two years of purchasing a new car imposes an undue burden on new car drivers and is not in the best interest of the State.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring a certificate of inspection to be obtained once every twenty-four months for all vehicles;

 

     (2)  Clarifying the purpose section accordingly; and

 

     (3)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 955, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 955, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair