Bill Text: HI HB1543 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Motor Vehicles; Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and Distributors; Reimbursement for Parts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 246, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1349). [HB1543 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1543-Amended.html

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 34-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2012

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1543

       S.D. 1

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sirs:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 1543, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY LICENSING LAW,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a manufacturer or distributor of motor vehicles from recovering, or attempting to recover, from dealers its cost for reimbursing a dealer for warranty work as required by applicable law.

 

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to:

 

          (A)  Conduct a review of the costs of the repairs of motor vehicles, including the prices charged by dealers for warranty and non-warranty repairs; and

 

          (B)  Compare such costs to repairs performed by non-dealers; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to upon its approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1543, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1543, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair