Bill Text: HI HB2649 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicle Boot Program; Counties

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-07 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Takai excused (1). [HB2649 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2649-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  125-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2649

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2649 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATEWIDE TRAFFIC CODE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to assist the counties in addressing motor vehicle violations by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing the counties to implement a vehicle immobilization program to place a vehicle boot on a vehicle owned by an individual with outstanding motor vehicle violations until those violations are resolved;

 

     (2)  Providing for fines, fees, and costs to be collected by the counties as a civil judgment in an appropriate court; and

 

     (3)  Providing that the fines, fees, and costs collected pursuant to the vehicle boot program shall be paid into the respective county general fund.

 

     The Councilmember from Council District 3 testified in support of this measure.

 

     Under the current system, when a motor vehicle owner fails to pay a fine for a traffic violation, a stopper is placed on that individual's motor vehicle registration and the motor vehicle registration cannot be renewed until the stopper is removed through the payment of the outstanding fine.  This may result in one of two things.  Either a vehicle owner will pay the fine and have the stopper removed or the delinquent party will simply not pay their registration fees and vehicle taxes.  Your Committee notes that a City and County of Honolulu report found that, as of 2008, 6,624 motor vehicles had three or more outstanding parking violations with a total of $1,500,000 in outstanding fines.  Allowing the counties to adopt a vehicle immobilization program using vehicle boots will address this situation.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Stipulating that 50 percent of the fines, fees, and costs associated with the vehicle boot program that are collected shall be paid into the state general fund; and

 

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

 

     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 H.B. No. 2649, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2649, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair