Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 81 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to conform state motor carrier vehicle marking requirements to federal standards.

The Department of Transportation and Hawaii Transportation Association testified in support of this measure.

Currently, state law requires that motor carrier vehicles display readily legible markings with letters and figures not less than two and one half inches in height, with a one-quarter inch stroke or width. This measure requires, instead, that markings be readily legible during daylight hours from a distance of fifty feet (15.24 meters), while the motor carrier vehicle is stationary.

Your Committee finds that the proposed marking requirements are consistent with federal motor carrier safety regulations, which have been adopted throughout the United States as a uniform standard.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 81, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.