STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1430

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 719
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 719, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the motor vehicle
special registration fee for highway beautification from $1 to $3
for all vehicles except U-drive motor vehicles.

     Your Committee finds that the motor vehicle registration
fee as provided in this measure will go into the highway
beautification and disposal of abandoned vehicles revolving fund.
As a place of natural beauty, Hawaii's roadways need to be kept
free of unsightly abandoned cars and beautified with natural
shrubbery.  A small fee added to the motor vehicle registration
can go a long way towards defraying expenses involved in highway
beautification.  Yet each individual vehicle owner would not pay
an exorbitant price for this benefit.  

     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.
719, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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