Report Title:

Emergency Medical Services; Motor Vehicle Registration Fee; Increase

Description:

Establishes a special fund for emergency medical services to be funded by an additional fee imposed on certificates of registration for motor vehicles.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2086

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to emergency medical services.

 

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part XVIII to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§321-   Emergency medical services special fund. (a) There is established within the state treasury a special fund to be known as the emergency medical services special fund to be administered and expended by the department of health.

(b) The moneys in the special fund shall used by the department of health for purchasing, operating, maintaining, and administrating additional ambulance units to be utilized within the state comprehensive emergency medical services system.

(c) Fees remitted pursuant to section 286-51(b), interest and investment earnings attributable to the moneys in the special fund, and grants, donations, and contributions from private or public sources for the purposes of the fund, shall be deposited into the special fund.

(d) The department of health shall submit an annual report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session; providing an accounting of the receipts of, and expenditures from, the special fund."

SECTION 2. Section 286-51, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) This part shall be administered by the director of finance in conjunction with the requirements of sections 249-1 to 249-13 and shall entail no additional expense or charge to the person registering the ownership of a motor vehicle other than as provided by this section or by other laws; provided that for each new certificate of ownership issued by the director of finance under section 286-52, the director of finance may charge a fee which shall be deposited in the general fund. The fees charged to issue a new certificate of ownership shall be established by the county's legislative body.

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, an additional fee of not more than $1 for each certificate of registration for a U-drive motor vehicle and $2 for each certificate of registration for all other motor vehicles may be established by ordinance and collected annually by the director of finance of each county, to be used and administered by each county:

(1) For the purpose of beautification and other related activities of highways under the ownership, control, and jurisdiction of each county; and

(2) To defray the additional cost in the disposition and other related activities of abandoned or derelict vehicles as prescribed in chapter 290.

The $2 fee established pursuant to this subsection for certificates of registration for motor vehicles other than U-drive motor vehicles may be increased by ordinance up to a maximum of $5; provided that all amounts received from any fee increase over $2 shall be expended only for the purposes of paragraph (2). The moneys so assessed and collected shall be placed in a revolving fund entitled, "the highway beautification and disposal of abandoned or derelict vehicles revolving fund".

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, an additional fee of not more than $10 for each certificate of registration for all motor vehicles, including U-drive vehicles, may be established by ordinance and collected annually by the director of finance of each county, which shall be deposited into the emergency medical services special fund."

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

_____________________________