Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2319 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify an employee's exemption from the motor vehicle safety responsibility law for posting security when involved in an accident during normal scope of employment.

Although your Committees received no testimony on this measure, your Committees find that this measure is important as more and more employees are using their own vehicles in the course of their employment. This measure removes the language limiting the exemption from posting security to drivers of a motor vehicle owned by their employer, thereby making the exemption applicable to all accidents so long as the accident occurred during the normal scope of that person's employment.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2319 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.