STAND. COM. REP. NO. 969-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2446

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2446, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Authorize the Examiner of Drivers of a county to suspend the driver's license of a person displaying a parking permit issued to a person who was deceased at the time the permit was displayed;

(2) Remit fifty percent of a fine for a violation of using a parking space reserved for persons with disabilities to the law enforcement agency that issued the citation; and

(3) Authorize each county to enact ordinances to enforce the design and construction requirements relating to accessible parking spaces, including the establishment of penalties.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Disability and Communications Access Board; Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities; one member of the Kauaʻi County Council; Retail Merchants of Hawaii; and two individuals.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the proposed remittance of fifty percent of a fine for a violation of using a parking space reserved for persons with disabilities to the law enforcement agency that issued the citation; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2446, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2446, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair