Report Title:

Safety

Description:

Adds motorcycle education courses approved by the Department of Defense to those approved by the department of transportation as meeting the prerequisite requirement for obtaining insurance coverage.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1342

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

Relating to motoRcycle and motor scooter safety.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 431:10G-104, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"§431:10G-104 Prerequisites for obtaining coverage. (a) Any person seeking to obtain the liability coverage required by this part after June 7, 1989, shall first:

(1) Have obtained a valid motorcycle or motor scooter license; or

(2) Have obtained a valid motorcycle or motor scooter learner's permit and [have taken and passed] registered to take a motorcycle education course approved by the department of transportation[.] or by the United States Department of Defense.

(b) A temporary insurance binder covering a period of not more than ninety days may be issued to a person who has a valid motorcycle or motor scooter learner's permit. To obtain a temporary binder, a person shall submit proof to the insurer of the person's enrollment in an approved motorcycle education course. The temporary insurance binder shall be subject to cancellation should the person fail to take, complete, and pass the course for which proof was submitted to the insurer.

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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