STAND. COM. REP. NO. 96

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 844

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 844 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require new vehicles to be safety inspected on or before their initial retail sale or lease from dealer to consumer, and inspected annually two years thereafter.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation (DOT), Honolulu Department of Customer Services, and Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association.

According to the DOT, this measure would conform the law to the current practices that were implemented after 2002 when the two-year period for the initial safety inspection was enacted. DOT has worked with county motor vehicle departments and automobile dealers to clarify and simplify the system. This measure is the outgrowth of that administrative effort.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 844, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 844, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Government Operations,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair