REPORT TITLE:
Rent-A-Car Pass On Fees


DESCRIPTION:
Allows rent-a-car lessors to visibly pass on to lessees,
concession or access fees and charges paid to public airports.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.765        
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL INDUSTRY.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 437D-8.4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended to read as follows:
 
 3      "[[]§437D-8.4[]]  License and registration fees.
 
 4 Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a lessor may visibly
 
 5 pass on to a lessee:
 
 6      (1)  The general excise tax attributable to the transaction;
 
 7      (2)  The vehicle license and registration fee and weight
 
 8           taxes, prorated at 1/365th of the annual vehicle
 
 9           license and registration fee and weight taxes actually
 
10           paid on the particular vehicle being rented for each
 
11           full or partial twenty-four hour rental day that the
 
12           vehicle is rented; provided the total of all vehicle
 
13           license and registration fees charged to all lessees
 
14           shall not exceed the annual vehicle license and
 
15           registration fee actually paid for the particular
 
16           vehicle rented; [and] 
 
17      (3)  Concession and access fees and charges paid to public
 
18           airports based on gross receipts a lessor derives from
 
19           providing rental motor vehicle services at, from, or in
 
20           connection with public airports; and
 

 
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 1    [(3)]  (4)  The rental motor vehicle surcharge tax as provided
 
 2           in section 251-2 attributable to the transaction.
 
 3 A representation by the lessor to the lessee that the visible
 
 4 pass on of the charges in paragraphs (1) to [(3)] (4) is 
 
 5 mandatory or that it is a government assessment upon the consumer
 
 6 shall be a per se violation of section 480-2."
 
 7      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 8 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 9      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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11                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________