Bill Text: HI SB2715 | 2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Motor Vehicles; Certificates of Inspection
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-10 - Referred to TRN, FIN, referral sheet 26 [SB2715 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-SB2715-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that motor vehicle inspections are necessary to ensure vehicles are in working order, ultimately increasing safety for all who use the roadways. To optimize the effectiveness of highway safety programs, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recommends that each state have a program for periodic safety inspections of all registered motor vehicles. Inspections are intended to reduce the number of unsafe vehicles on the road. Data from a report released in August 2015, by the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that only sixteen states currently require periodic motor vehicle safety inspections. Of those sixteen states, Hawaii is one of eleven that require inspections to be conducted on an annual basis, while five states require inspections to be conducted on either a biennial or other basis. The results of the GAO study reveal that annual motor vehicle inspection programs do not produce conclusive evidence of improving vehicle safety conditions. Crash rates before and after the elimination of motor vehicles safety inspection programs varied little from year to year following the elimination of inspection programs.
The legislature further finds that the current annual inspection program is an undue hardship to many of Hawaii's residents, especially those in rural areas. The recent decrease in availability of safety inspectors and limited business hours of inspection operators favors a shift from annual to biennial inspections. However, the legislature does not intend to permit an increase in the fees collected for inspection services performed on a biennial schedule.
The purpose of this Act is to require that motorists obtain a biennial motor vehicle inspection rather than an annual inspection.
SECTION 2. Section 286-26, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) All other vehicles, including
motorcycles, trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers having a gross vehicle
weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less, and antique motor vehicles as defined
in section 249-1, except those in subsections (c) and (d), shall be certified
as provided in subsection (e) every [twelve] twenty-four months[;
provided that any vehicle to which this subsection applies shall not require
inspection within two years of the date on which the vehicle was first sold]."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Motor Vehicles; Certificates of Inspection
Description:
Requires motor vehicle safety inspections to be conducted every two years rather than annually. (SD1)
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