Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1723 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to exempt a person involved in an accident during the normal course of their employment from the security and suspension requirements established under the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act (chapter 287, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS)).

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu.

Under the existing law, if a vehicle used by the employee in the course of employment is owned by the employer, the employee is exempt from chapter 287, HRS. However, certain instances may require an employee to operate a vehicle not owned by the employer. In such a case, the employee is not exempt from chapter 287, HRS, even if the employee is covered under the employer's insurance policy. Your Committee feels that this measure corrects this inequity.

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. 1723 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection and Commerce and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.