STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1685

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1709

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1709, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOPEDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to exempt three-wheeled mopeds designed to carry a driver and passenger seated side-by-side from certain prohibitions on the operation of mopeds.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Transportation and Shamrock Importers, LLC.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Deleting the requirement that the operation of three-wheeled mopeds be restricted to the right side of the roadway;

 

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion of this measure; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style and         clarity.


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1709, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1709, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair