STAND. COM. REP. NO. 478

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1342

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 1342 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARKING FOR THE DISABLED,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow disabled parking placards to be displayed on a vehicle's dashboard if the design of the vehicle's rearview mirror precludes secure hanging of the placard.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Disability and Communication Access Board and one individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that rearview mirrors may be designed in a way that precludes the hanging of a disabled parking placard in a secure fashion.  Your Committee further finds that under those circumstances, being legally able to place a disabled parking placard on a vehicle's dashboard would benefit individuals with placards.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting language to clarify when a disabled parking placard shall be hung from a vehicle's front rearview mirror and when it may be displayed on a vehicle's dashboard.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1342, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1342, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair