STAND. COM. REP. NO.1190-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2488

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 2488, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable the counties to continue to administer the program to issue parking placards to qualified persons with disabilities (program) by:

(1) Increasing the annual motor vehicle registration fee (registration fee) from $20 to $20.70;

(2) Establishing the Parking for Persons with Disabilities Special Fund (Fund);

(3) Requiring that 70 cents of the registration fee be deposited into the Fund to finance the program; and

(4) Appropriating $600,000 from the Fund for fiscal year 2002-2003 to carry out the program.

The Disability and Communication Access Board, the Honolulu Police Department, and the City and County of Honolulu Department of Customer Services testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that the moneys to finance the program should be taken from the existing registration fee. Accordingly, your Committee has:

(1) Deleted the proposed increase in the registration fee; and

(2) Reduced the amount earmarked for the Highway Fund from $20 to $19.30.

Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

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 S.B. No. 2488, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2488, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair