STAND. COM. REP. NO.  503-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1705

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1705 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

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

     Your Committee finds that many insurance companies provide access to proof of motor vehicle insurance on electronic mobile devices.  Your Committee further finds that thirty-seven states permit drivers to provide proof of motor vehicle insurance by using an electronic mobile device.  Accordingly, your Committee finds that Hawaii drivers and owners of motor vehicles should be allowed to use electronic mobile devices to prove motor vehicle insurance. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1705 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair