STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3578

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2161

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2161, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VEHICLE INSPECTION STATIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to change the penalty that is imposed upon a vehicle inspection station for improper motor vehicle inspections from the revocation or suspension of the station's operating permit to a fine.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Transportation.

 

     Your Committee finds that revoking or suspending a vehicle inspection station's permit leads to unemployment for the employees of the station and shifts the consequences of noncompliance with inspection requirements from station owners or management to station employees, who may have little or no decision-making powers with respect to station operations.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2161, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2161, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair