STAND. COM. REP. NO. 542

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1212

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 1212 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Require resolution of an outstanding federal out-of-service order prior to registration renewals and initial registrations of motor carrier vehicles; and

(2) Define "out-of-service order".

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and Hawaii Transportation Association.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Transportation's Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP) is funded through a federal grant from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Eligible activities of the MCSAP include commercial motor vehicle inspections and compliance reviews. The Performance Registration Information Systems Management (PRISM) is a federal program that identifies motor carriers that are under a federal out-of-service order because those motor carriers have not corrected safety deficiencies found in compliance review inspections. This measure will allow the State to be compliant with and qualify under PRISM, and thus continue to receive MCSAP funding.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1212, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1212, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair