STAND. COM. REP. NO. 215

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1046

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1046 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FEES FOR WINDSHIELD PLACARDS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the counties to deposit all fees for temporary and replacement disabled parking placards into the state general fund.

 

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the City and County of Honolulu, the Disability and Communication Access Board, and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that moneys collected by the counties for temporary and replacement placards should be returned to the state general fund.  Currently, the State reimburses the counties at a rate of $12 per placard.  This measure clarifies that the moneys collected would be returned directly to the State and eliminates the paperwork required for requesting remittance, thus allowing for smoother quarterly transactions.

 

     To this end, your Committees amended the measure by inserting the word "state" before the words "general fund" in sections 1, 2, and 3, to provide clarity and to avoid confusion between the state general fund and the general funds of the respective counties.

    

     It is the intent of your Committees to require the counties to deposit all fees for temporary and replacement disabled parking placards into the state general fund.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1046, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1046, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and International Affairs,

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair