STAND. COM. REP. NO.893

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 684

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 684, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARKING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve and strengthen the statewide program on parking for persons with disabilities.

Generally, the bill:

(1) Includes "vascular" conditions as a qualification for parking privileges;

(2) Includes the access aisles that are adjacent to parking spaces as part of parking spaces for persons with disabilities;

(3) Authorizes replacement of stolen placards through the same procedure as replacement of lost or mutilated placards;

(4) Clarifies that parking privileges for persons with disabilities apply to public parking spaces;

(5) Lowers the penalty for failure to display the proper permit or identification card; and

(6) Provides penalties for illegally parking in an access aisle adjacent to a parking space for a person with a disability.

Your Committee has amended the bill by:

(1) Adding "extreme colitis" as a qualifying condition for a parking space to recognize that there may be other medically diagnosed conditions other than the inability to walk more than two hundred feet that may require an individual to have closer access to a particular area; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050 to facilitate further discussion on this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 684, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 684, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair