Bill Text: HI HB2297 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Motor Vehicles

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-12 - (S) Act 103, 5/12/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 561). [HB2297 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2297-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2952

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2297

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2297, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE SUN SCREENING DEVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow transparent sun screening film materials that meet the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 205 to be applied to any portion of a motor vehicle's windshield.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Honolulu Department of Customer Services, T&T Tinting Specialists, and The Hawaii Business League.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure updates the law on sunscreen devices, also called tinted windows.  Current law restricts tinting to the upper four inches of windshields, known as the AS-1 line, to provide drivers with some relief from the sun.  This measure conforms current law to new technologies that reduce 99.9 per cent of the ultraviolet light spectrum and almost half of the heat without reducing light transmission below the federal minimum standard of seventy per cent visible light transmission.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting S.B. No. 2455, S.D. 2, a substantially similar measure which:

 

(1)  Retains the provision specifying the permissible area of placement of sunscreen devices on the windshield; and

 

(2)  Clarifies that the sunscreen devices must meet the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 205 when applied to the AS-1 portion of the windshield.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2297, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2297, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair