Report Title:

Drivers Education; Fees; Motorcycle Operator Education

 

Description:

Transfers the drivers education underwriters fee for motorcycles and motor scooters from the University of Hawaii community colleges to the Department of Transportation. Creates motorcycle and motor scooter operators education fund. (HB1731 CD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1731

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

H.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

S.D. 1

C.D. 1


 
     

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO DRIVERS EDUCATION FUND UNDERWRITERS FEES.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the department of transportation has canceled its agreement with the University of Hawaii community colleges to coordinate motorcycle and motor scooter education classes, and has taken over responsibility for administering the rider education program.

Since the university is no longer administering the state motorcycle program, the purpose of this Act is to transfer funding of the program to the department of transportation.

SECTION 2. Section 431:10G-107, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§431:10G-107 Drivers education fund underwriters fee[.]; motorcycle and motor scooter operators education fund. (a) The commissioner shall assess and levy upon each insurer, and self-insurer, a drivers education fund underwriters fee of $2 a year on each motorcycle or motor scooter insured by each insurer or self-insurer. This fee shall be due and payable [in full] on an annual basis by means and at a time to be determined by the commissioner.

(b) There is created in the treasury of the State a special fund to be known as the motorcycle and motor scooter operators education fund. The commissioner shall deposit [these] the fees collected under this section into [a special drivers education fund account.] the motorcycle and motor scooter operators education fund.

(c) The fees deposited for each fiscal year into the motorcycle and motor scooter operators education fund, when appropriated, shall be [distributed to and expended by the University of Hawaii community colleges] available to the department of transportation for the [operation] administration of a drivers education program for operators of motorcycles or motor scooters. The department of transportation may spend the amount collected from these fees for the purposes of this section."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.