STAND. COM. REP. NO.  884

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 894

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 894, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVERS' LICENSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow drivers 18 to 21 years of age to be granted a special commercial driver's license allowing them to drive only smaller commercial buses, vans, and trucks.

     The Hawaii Transportation Association supported this bill.  The Department of Transportation and the Honolulu Police Department opposed this measure.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is not intended to confer upon 18 year olds all the privileges of a commercial drivers license.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by:

(1)  Extending the effective date to January 1, 2112; and

(2)  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 H.B. No. 894, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 894, H.D. 2.

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

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair