STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1399

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1109

H.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1109, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to meet federal requirements on fraudulent activity relating to commercial learner's permits and commercial driver's licenses.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committees find that motor carriers provide various services across the State.  Presently, the Department of Transportation is required by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, pursuant to title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations section 383.73(k)(2), to implement policies that result, at minimum, in the disqualification of the commercial learner's permit or commercial driver's license for applicants who are suspected of fraud related to the testing and issuance of the permit or license. This measure provides additional accountability for drivers who obtain a commercial learner's permit or commercial driver's license while also satisfying mandatory conformance to federal requirements.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1109, H.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Culture and the Arts and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair