STAND. COM. REP. NO.  285

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 970

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 970 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase government efficiency with regard to the motor vehicle safety inspection program by, among other things:

 

     (1)  Streamlining and reducing the insurance information required to be placed on a safety inspection certificate;

 

     (2)  Eliminating the ability of motor vehicle owners to replace lost, stolen, or destroyed inspection stickers without a re-inspection of the motor vehicle; and

 

     (3)  Allowing the Director of Transportation to adopt administrative rules regarding the administration and enforcement of motor carrier vehicle safety inspections, including the establishment and amendment of various fees.

 

     The Department of Transportation testified in support of this measure.

 


     Your Committee finds that the current safety inspection system for motor vehicles is antiquated and that simplifying certain safety inspection information requirements would allow the motor vehicle safety inspection program to be run more efficiently, thereby improving service and value to the public.

 

     Your Committee also finds that the Department of Transportation needs the flexibility to make changes to fees for the inspection of motor vehicle carriers without having to introduce legislation each time a fee needs to be changed.  Allowing the Department to change these fees through the administrative rules process would further increase government efficiency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 970 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

 

 

 

 

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair