STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1227

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1093

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1093, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the commercial driver licensing law with respect to the alcohol concentration level of an individual driving a commercial vehicle.

     This measure amends the definition of "driving a commercial motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant" to include driving a commercial motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or more grams of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of breath or 0.04 or more grams of alcohol per one hundred milliliters or cubic centimeters of blood, and makes conforming amendments to appropriate statutory provisions.

     Your Committee finds that this measure conforms Hawaii's law to federal regulations relating to commercial driver licensing.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1093, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1093, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair