STAND. COM. REP. NO. 133-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2823
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2823 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received, is to exempt from the
fees and charges assessed by the motor carrier law, those persons
engaged in the transport of school children and teachers to and
from school and school functions, and providing transportation at
special rates for groups and conducting nonregular excursions.

     Your Committee finds the motor carrier industry to be highly
competitive.  School bus operators would like to transport people
for non-school related purposes.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from Gomes
School Bus Service.  Testimonies in opposition to this bill were
received from the Hawaii Transportation Association, Kobayashi
Travel Service, Ltd., Trans Hawaiian Services, Roberts Hawaii,
and Polynesian Adventure Tours.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its
substance and amending it to exempt school buses from section
271-8.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes(HRS), which restrict advertising
practices, and from section 271-36(c), HRS, which stipulates that
the Public Utilities Commision may charge an amount it deems
necessary and reasonable to defray administrative costs.  Other
technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for clarity and
style.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2823, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2823, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Education.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation,



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                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair