STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1265

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   S.B. No. 975

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 975, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address the unlawful or unauthorized use of disability parking permits by:

 

     (1)  Establishing a misdemeanor offense for the unauthorized sale or purchase of a disability parking permit; and

 

     (2)  Clarifying law enforcement authority to confiscate altered, invalid, or unauthorized disability parking permits.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from three individuals.  The Disability and Communication Access Board submitted comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the misdemeanor offense established by this measure does not apply to legitimately obtaining a disability parking permit in compliance with relevant statutes;

 

     (2)  Adding a savings clause; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 975, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 975, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair