STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2968

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2273

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2273 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE MECHANIC CERTIFICATION PROGRAM,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Motor Vehicle Repair Industry Board to enter into agreements with entities, educational institutions, or other organizations, as necessary, in addition to the University of Hawaii, to ensure that motor vehicle mechanics' knowledge of motor vehicle repairs are current and in line with industry standards.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Motor Vehicle Repair Industry Board.

 

     Your Committees find that this measure will provide the Motor Vehicle Repair Industry Board with greater flexibility to enter into agreements with a variety of organizations to ensure that motor vehicle mechanics' knowledge of motor vehicle repairs are current and in line with industry standards.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstative amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2273, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2273, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair