STAND. COM. REP. NO.896

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 835

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 835, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STORED VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to waive motor vehicle fees for certain elderly persons.

Specifically, this bill provides for the waiver of unpaid motor vehicle weight taxes, fees, and penalties for motor vehicle owners who are seventy years of age or older and who transfer the vehicles to persons who receive medical assistance through the Department of Human Services or tax-exempt organizations.

Your Committee finds that this measure is a humanitarian gesture. Your Committee recognizes that the motor vehicles of the elderly often sit unregistered and unused for transportation. However, they are not officially recorded as stored vehicles, which are exempt from motor vehicle weight taxes. This measure effectively treats those vehicles as stored vehicles that are exempt from the vehicle tax.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date from July 1, 2003 to July 1, 2053, for the purposes of continued discussion on the matter; and

(2) Making a technical nonsubstantive change for purposes of clarity and consistency.

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 S.B. No. 835, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 835, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair