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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes August 27,2019 Page 16 when you get 50% that's an accomplishment. That's more than the Office of Aging requires for you to get one of those placards. Chair Doolittle: But even with the disabled license plate you'd still have to go to the Office of Aging to get a parking placard. Sueoka: Fuata, this is Roddy. I understand what you are saying but we'd probably have to get some research to see how many folks would really want it. We've run across a bunch, I offer up the veteran's designation on the driver's license, but we get a bunch that tell me, I don't want people to know. Put in the disabled veteran tag to it might be even more so. A lot of folks don't like to use that disability part in the sentence like the veteran. Before we propose something or push something through, I think maybe we should try and see what the numbers are. Yes, we are the two states that don't offer it however what does the number look like. Fuata: I'll tell you it went hand in hand because I had no idea about this when I registered my car in Texas. But when I showed the lady my paperwork in Texas she goes, you know you qualify for this, this, this and this. Which means that my first car, registration was free, and any subsequent car was only $5. Now you tell me who's not going to do that in the state of Hawaii. The fact that I was able to go to the ez-pay, get a free tag and go on the tolls in Houston and around Austin, I'll tell you just going to work saved me $15 one way. Sueoka: Yeah, but we don't have tolls here. (inaudible) Chair Doolittle: But having s disabled veterans license plate and getting a reduced registration are two entirely separate. Lewis: Well yeah, there's no benefits right now. 1)No recognition and no benefits tied to that benefits. Chair Doolittle: Yeah and tying benefits to that is an entirely different kind of circumstance like the one we have for property taxes for disabled veterans. Sueoka: And we have registration. Then registration for the vehicle,just so we know the registration is a County of Hawai`i thing. You go City and County of Honolulu, good luck. Over here, the Mayor from before, decided that was important. Like I said hang on, let's put that off for a little bit. Fuata: That is a fair statement. Maybe we should go out and survey our veterans. You bring up a very valid point. If there were other things that you had introduced with legislation to bring in and no one really took advantage of it. I just don't want to have