Bill Text: HI HB2552 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

---

Bill Title: Disabled Persons Parking; Funding

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-01 - (H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2552 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2552-Amended.html

---

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  291-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2552

 

 

 

 

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. 2552 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FUNDING FOR PARKING FOR DISABLED PERSONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help cover the administrative costs of issuing disabled parking placards for persons with disabilities by increasing the annual vehicle registration fee by $1, which will be deposited into the Disability and Communication Access Board Special Fund.  

 

     The Disability and Communication Access Board, Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

 

     Your Committee finds that with the aging of the population and the projected increase in the number of individuals who are eligible for parking placards, the parking program for persons with disabilities will become a significant expenditure for the general fund.  A nominal increase in the annual vehicle registration fee will ensure the continuation of a quality parking program without tapping into valuable and limited general funds.

 

     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. 2552 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair