STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2139

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2355

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2026

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 2355 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Director of Transportation to adopt rules allowing for mobile vehicle safety inspections.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from four individuals.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that existing administrative rules adopted by the Department of Transportation require that vehicle safety inspections be performed at a licensed site. Your Committee further finds that vehicle owners seeking a vehicle safety inspection are subject to the availability of safety inspectors; therefore, authorizing mobile vehicle safety inspections will provide greater flexibility for vehicle owners and safety inspectors. Accordingly, this measure will allow vehicle safety inspections to occur at a location determined by the vehicle owner and inspector, creating a more convenient experience for vehicle owners and improving compliance with safety inspection requirements.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting language that would have required the Department of Transportation to adopt rules allowing for mobile vehicle safety inspections of motor carrier vehicles;

(2) Inserting language specifying that the Department of Transportation shall adopt rules allowing for mobile vehicle safety inspections of passenger cars; and

(3) 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 that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2355, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2355, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair