STAND. COM. REP. NO. 535

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1416

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1416 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHWAY SAFETY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to lengthen the period during which new vehicles are exempted from safety inspections, from two years to three years after the date of purchase.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from Gail Y. Haraguchi, Director, Department of Consumer Services, City and County of Honolulu.

 

     Your Committee finds that because new vehicles are unlikely to experience major mechanical defects during the first three years after their purchase, the present timeframe for safety inspection of new vehicles is unnecessarily burdensome on the owners.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2012.

 

     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. 1416, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1416, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair