STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1117

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 366

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 366 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NUMBER PLATES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish penalties for the failure to comply with a County Director of Finance's request that a vehicle number plate or special number plate be returned.

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

Your Committees find that occasionally it is necessary to recall a specialty license plate after it has been issued. However, there is currently no incentive for the owner of a specialty license plate to comply with a request to return the plate. This measure will impose a civil fine to promote compliance with a request to recall a specialty license plate.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an effective date of March 22, 2075, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 366, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 366, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair