STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1535-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 824

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 824, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist motor carriers by prohibiting persons who contract for transportation services with a regulated motor carrier from requiring the motor carrier to indemnify the person and the person's agents, employees, servants, or independent contractors from claims and liabilities for their negligence or intentional acts or omissions.

The Hawaii Transportation Association; U. Okada & Co., Ltd; Kona Transportation Company Incorporated; Hawaii Transfer Co., Ltd.; Island Movers, Inc.; and Hawaii Logistics Services testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to upon its approval; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 824, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 824, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary,

____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair