Bill Text: HI SB2625 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Motor vehicle safety check

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-07 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to CPN. [SB2625 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2625-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2049

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2625

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2625 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTIONS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to abolish the requirement that certain vehicles obtain an annual certificate of inspection.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals.  Testimony in opposition was submitted by the State Department of Transportation, Honolulu Police Department, and Honolulu Customer Services Department.

 

     Your Committees find that annual vehicle certificates of inspection may not be necessary.  Recently, some jurisdictions throughout the nation have cut or proposed to cut vehicle safety inspection programs or have exempted certain vehicles from safety inspections.  Advocates for the repeal of safety inspection programs or the exemption of new motor vehicles from inspection requirements cite a lack of evidence that safety inspections save lives and question whether inspections of new vehicles is cost efficient.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2625 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair