STAND. COM. REP. NO. 201

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 366

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and Culture and the Arts, 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 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 a county Director of Finance may refrain from issuing, or request the return of, a number plate or special number plate for various reasons, including the use of language that is publicly objectionable. Your Committees further find that individuals may refuse a county Director of Finance's request to return a vehicle number plate or special number plate, due to the lack of adequate penalties for individuals who fail to comply with the request. Creating penalties for the refusal of complying with the request will further promote compliance. Therefore, this measure will establish a fine of an unspecified amount, revocation of the person's driver's license, or both, for any person who fails to comply with a county Director of Finance's request to return a number plate or special number plate.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and Culture and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 366 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair