STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2464

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2685

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and Energy, to which was referred S.B. No. 2685 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow proof of motor vehicle insurance to be displayed in electronic format on a mobile electronic device.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Property and Casualty Insurers Association of America, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, United States Automobile Association, and Hawaii Insurers Council.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

 

     Your Committee finds that many motor vehicle insurance companies offer insurance documents through applications on mobile electronic devices.  This electronic proof of coverage gives drivers a convenient, paperless way to display up-to-date insurance information.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the motor vehicle identification card of proof of insurance card must be authenticated in order to deter fraud.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Energy that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2685, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2685, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Energy,

 

 

 

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair