STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2730

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2447

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2447 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 increase the time period during which a new vehicle owner is exempt from obtaining a certificate of inspection from two years of the date of purchase to three years.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from EAN Holdings, LCC.  Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Division of Motor Vehicle Licensing and Permits Administration, City and County of Honolulu; and Aloha Shell Service.

 

Your Committee finds that technological advances have sufficiently increased new vehicle safety and reliability so that increasing a new vehicle's exemption from inspection from two years to three years is appropriate.

 

     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. 2447 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair