Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2158, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to exempt law enforcement officers driving rescue vehicles from commercial driver licensing (CDL) provisions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) and the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that HPD is acquiring special police vehicles large enough to require commercial licenses to operate them. Since police vehicles are "authorized emergency vehicles," this measure will obviate the need for law enforcement officers to get a CDL to operate these new police vehicles.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2158, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2158, H.D. 2.