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 S.B. No. 80 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require that markings of vehicles for motor carrier vehicles be legible during daylight hours from fifty feet away while the motor carrier vehicle is stationary.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Transportation and the Hawaii Transportation Association.

Your Committee finds that pursuant to Act 119, Session Laws of Hawaii 1997, marking requirements for motor carrier vehicles were established under state law. Your Committee further finds that the federal regulations, under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act, have subsequently been amended. Your Committee determines that this measure is necessary in order to make state law conform to the federal regulations, which are widely considered to be the uniform standard throughout the country.

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 S.B. No. 80 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.