Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 73 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to simplify the inspection and certification of motor carrier vehicles by requiring that inspections and certifications take place annually during the month in which the vehicle's certificate of motor vehicle registration is issued.

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

Currently, all commercial motor vehicles have their annual safety inspections conducted during the month of June. This necessitates approximately 100,000 vehicles being inspected at the same time, creating a backlog at inspection stations.

Your Committee finds that this measure will ease the burden placed on inspectors and safety inspection and certification stations by spreading out inspection deadlines over the course of a year.

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 S.B. No. 73 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary.