STAND. COM. REP. NO. 754
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 1101
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1101, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
(1) Prohibiting uncertified common carriers from recovering undercharges;
(2) Prohibiting uncertified motor carriers from holding a statutory lien on transported freight or goods; and
(3) Permitting a person who uses the services of an uncertified motor carrier to bring a judicial action for the recovery of all paid compensation.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Requiring that a person who brings a judicial action to recover compensation paid to a common carrier by motor vehicle operating in violation of section 271-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to first file a complaint with the Public Utilities Commission and receive verification of the carrier's violation of section 271-8; and
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2013.
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 H.B. No. 1101, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1101, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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