STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3341

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2112

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2112, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOPED INSURANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require persons operating mopeds in the State to carry an insurance policy.

Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from Hawaiian Style Rentals & Sales; Mopeds Direct, Inc.; Moped Doctors; Moped Garage; and thirteen individuals.

Your Committee finds that existing statute does not require moped owners to purchase and carry an insurance policy for their mopeds. Your Committee further finds that according to state data, there were four hundred seventeen crashes involving mopeds in 2023, two hundred forty-one of which involved another motor vehicle. This measure requires moped owners to purchase an insurance policy, protecting moped operators and other persons and property involved in a collision.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2112, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2112, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair