STAND. COM. REP. NO. 645

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1212

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 1212, S.D. 1, 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 any outstanding federal out-of-service orders 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.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Transportation's Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP) is funded through a grant from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The federal grant covers eighty-five percent of the MCSAP eligible activities, which include compliance reviews and commercial motor vehicle inspections, to ensure motor carrier vehicles are safe to operate on Hawaii's highways. 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 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 Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1212, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1212, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair