Bill Text: HI SB2182 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Parking Spaces; Persons With Disabilities; Violations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to HLT/TRN, JUD, referral sheet 36 [SB2182 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2182-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2604

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2182

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2182 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARKING SPACES RESERVED FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the enforcement of the authorized use of parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities.

 

     Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Clarifies that a violation of the parking for persons with disabilities law is committed by a driver or the registered owner of a vehicle;

 

     (2)  Allows the citation to be handed to the violator or affixed to the vehicle if the vehicle is unattended; and

 

     (3)  Clarifies that a citation may be mailed when the violator refuses the citation.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by one state board and one county agency.  Four organizations support the intent.  Written comments presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will bring the law on parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities in accordance with other parking infractions which allow the driver or the registered owner of the vehicle to be held accountable, and thus preserve the use of the accessible parking spaces for those individuals who are permitted to use the spaces. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adopting the recommendations of Catrala-Hawaii to exempt registered owners who are lessors of rental or U-drive motor vehicles, to the extent provided by section 291D-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which requires the lessor to provide contact information for the lessee who received the citation; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2182, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2182, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair