Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 73 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of motor carrier vehicle inspections by spreading out the annual inspections of motor carrier vehicles throughout the year.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Transportation and the Hawaii Transportation Association.

Your Committees find that all motor carrier vehicles are now required to be inspected during the month of June. This necessitates that about 100,000 vehicles must be inspected in a relatively brief period, resulting in backlogs at inspection stations, and potentially overly-hasty inspections.

This bill proposes to spread those inspections and certifications throughout the year by requiring that motor carrier vehicles be inspected during the month in which the vehicle's certificate of vehicle registration is issued.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 73 and recommend that it pass Third Reading.