Bill Text: HI SB30 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Abandoned Vehicles; Repossession; Disposal

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB30 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB30-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 766

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 30

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 30 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ABANDONED VEHICLES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to extend the time period during which the legal and registered owner of an abandoned vehicle may recover possession of the vehicle before it may be subject to disposal.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Credit Union League and EAN Holdings, LLC.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure establishes a more practical time frame for a vehicle owner to recover possession of a vehicle that has been towed away after being designated as abandoned.  Your Committee further finds that this measure will be especially useful in cases where the vehicle was financed by a loan because it gives a lender who receives notice of the abandoned vehicle sufficient time to contact a borrower who is the vehicle's actual owner.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to allow for further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 30, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 30, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

		____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair