STAND. COM. REP. NO. 783-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1777
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which
was referred H.B. No. 1777, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify the responsibility
of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) in considering
applications for certificates of public convenience for carriers
and permits for contract carriers.

     Your Committee finds that this bill ensures that the PUC
cannot authorize more service than that requested by the
passenger-carrying applicant, thereby making public notice
effective to the Consumer Advocate and the public.

     Testimony was received in support of this measure from a
private attorney representing a motor carrier.  The PUC opposed
this measure.

     Your Committee, upon further consideration, has amended this
measure to address the concerns of the PUC by:

     (1)  Deleting the word "vehicle types" and replacing it with
          "vehicles";

     (2)  Narrowing the bill to apply only to applicants for
          authority to carry more than seven passengers to reduce
          the chances prose applicants will be affected by the
          bill; and 

 
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     (3)  Deleting subsection (d) to Hawaii Revised Statutes,
          Section 271-13.

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for clarity,
consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 1777, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto
as H.B. No. 1777, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   RON MENOR, Chair