STAND. COM. REP. NO. 241

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1017

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Agriculture and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1017 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the exemption for vehicles designated as farm use only as set forth in section 286-208, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Agricultural Research Center.

     Your Committees find that under the federal Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, the State is required to adopt the federal exemptions as to farm vehicles.  The Department of Agriculture has adopted the federal requirements in chapter 19-141, Hawaii Administrative Rules.  As such, section 286-208, Hawaii Revised Statutes, should be repealed as it creates a conflict with federal law.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Agriculture and Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1017 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Energy and Agriculture and Environment,

________________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair