STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1267

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 845

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 845, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to promote commercial motor vehicle safety by adopting federally mandated changes of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act.

The Department of Transportation and the City and County of Honolulu's Department of Customer Services supported this bill. The Judiciary provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Requiring the Judiciary to electronically transmit to

the statewide traffic records system records of convictions, failures to appear in court, or failure to pay a fine or court cost;

(2) Allowing the Director of Transportation to delegate this responsibility to another agency with compensation if appropriate;

 

(3) Clarifying that the conditional license permits under the administrative revocation process should not be issued for commercial driving, but may be issued for noncommercial driving;

(4) Making it unlawful for a person with 0.04 percent or

more, by weight, of alcohol in the person's blood to drive a commercial vehicle; and

(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity,

consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 845, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 845, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair