STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2353

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1211

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1211, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR CARRIERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the law relating to exemption for vehicles designated as vehicles used by farmers as set forth in section 286-208, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and Hawai‘i Farm Bureau.

Your Committee finds that existing state law as set forth in section 286-208, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is superseded by title 49 Code of Federal Regulations section 390.39. This measure will repeal this outdated statute. According to testimony received by your Committee, failure to enact this measure could disqualify the State from receiving $1,200,000 in federal Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program funds annually. The Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program funds provide financial assistance to the State in carrying out its commercial motor vehicle safety program to promote safety on the State's roadways. This measure will ensure that the State continues to have the funds it needs to keep the roadways safe.

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 Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1211, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1211, S.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair