STAND. COM. REP. NO.657-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 1730

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1730 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRIVERS EDUCATION FUND UNDERWRITERS FEE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to raise the drivers education fund underwriters fee and reallocate the fee among the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, and the Department of Transportation (DOT) for driver education and traffic safety programs.

The Department of Education and the Hawaii Association of Safety Traffic Educators testified in support of this measure. DOT testified in support of the bill with amendments. The Hawaii Insurers Council testified in opposition to this bill. The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that DOT is authorized to spend its portion of the fees collected for the purposes of section 431:10C-115, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1730, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1730, H.D. 1.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair