STAND. COM. REP. NO. 280

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 739

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 739 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY INSPECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Transportation to amend its administrative rules to repeal any provisions requiring the furnishing of evidence of registration as a condition precedent to receiving a certificate of inspection.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu.

Your Committee finds that requiring vehicle owners to present a valid certificate of registration in order to receive a certificate of inspection creates an arduous three-step process if the owner's certificates of inspection and registration are both expired. Your Committee further finds that the majority of states do not require a safety inspection at all, and the ones that do require a safety inspection usually do not require a certificate of registration first in order to receive a certificate of inspection. Repealing this provision would reduce the inconvenience for the public.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 739, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 739, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair