STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1663-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2898

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2898, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure timely compliance with certain federal motor carrier safety regulations by amending or deleting statutes containing federal commercial driver's licensing requirements that are addressed in the Hawaii Administrative Rules.

The Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Removing extraneous references to the Director of Transportation's general rule-making authority; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2898, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2898, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

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

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair