Bill Text: HI SB2296 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Act

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-29 - (S) The committee on CPN deferred the measure. [SB2296 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2296-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2084

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2296

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2296 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY LICENSING ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Require motor vehicles to be insured prior to release from auction;

 

(2)  Update dealer bonding requirements;

 

(3)  Change the amount of the additional bond that the Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Board is authorized to require in order to issue a dealer's license despite previous misconduct of the applicant; and

 

(4)  Require that an applicant for a dealer's license has a sales location that is zoned for such use, as a condition to issuance of the license.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Independent Automobile Dealers Association and one individual.  Testimony in opposition was submitted by the Motor Vehicle Industry Licensing Board and Insurance Auto Auctions.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to increase the reliability of automobile dealers in general, and in particular those who sell motor vehicles through the Internet.  It is not the intent of your Committee to stifle the marketplace for motor vehicle sales, but instead to protect the consumer.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2296 and recommends 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 Committee on Transportation and International Affairs,

 

		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair