STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2120

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2759

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2759 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to differentiate category (4) motor vehicles from commercial vehicles for purposes of driver licensing.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and Hawaii Transportation Association.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     This measure clarifies category (4) vehicles as all motor vehicles in category (3) and any vehicle that is not a commercial vehicle.

     Category (3) motor vehicles are defined as passenger cars of any gross vehicle weight rating, buses designed to transport fifteen or fewer occupants, and trucks and vans having a gross vehicle weight rating of fifteen thousand pounds or less.

     Your Committee finds that operators of category (4) motor vehicles are not required to hold a commercial driver's license and are not subject to the federal disqualifications that apply to the holder of a commercial driver's license or operator of a commercial vehicle.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2759 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair