Bill Text: HI SB2455 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Motor Vehicles

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-10 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SB2455 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2455-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2025

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2455

       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 Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2455 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE SUN SCREENING DEVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide an exemption from the regulation of motor vehicle sun screening devices for Transparent sun screening materials applied to the AS‑1 portion of the windshield in compliance with federal law.

 

Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill from The Hawaii Business League and T & T Tinting Specialists, Inc. Your Committee received testimony in opposition from K&Y Auto Service.  Comments were received from the Honolulu Division of Motor Vehicle, Licensing and Permits Administration.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure updates current law to conform with new technologies that reduces 99.9 per cent of the ultraviolet light spectrum and almost half of the heat, without reducing light transmission below the federal minimum standard of seventy per cent visible light transmission.

 

     Your Committee has been informed that four states have amended their statutes to allow the new technology on front windshields.  Other states are considering similar amendments in the interests of implementing the green technology to save energy and add comfort.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure to make the reference to federal law more specific.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2455, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2455, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair