STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1503

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 733

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 733, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide exemptions from vehicle registration, safety inspection, and driver licensure requirements in relation to tractor trucks, forklifts, and top picks used as marine terminal equipment temporarily moving in or between terminals at Sand Island and along Sand Island Parkway and Sand Island Access Road.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; The Maritime Group, LLC; and Matson.

     Your Committee finds that by streamlining the requirements for moving marine equipment between terminals at commercial harbors, this measure allows harbor users to re-allocate resources and promotes operational efficiencies and flexibility, which are needed at terminals at Sand Island and along Sand Island Parkway and Sand Island Access Road.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2017.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 733, 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. 733, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair