STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3229

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1578

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1578, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Allow a shipping container chassis that holds a valid out-of-state certificate of vehicle registration to obtain a certificate of safety inspection; and

(2) Make an out-of-state registration for a shipping container chassis valid in the State until its expiration in the other state or for one year after a vehicle safety inspection.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; General Contractors Association of Hawaii; Hawaii Harbors Users Group; Matson Navigation Company, Inc.; Retail Merchants of Hawaii; Young Brothers, LLC; and one individual.

Your Committee finds that nationwide, most states acknowledge out-of-state license plates and registrations of shipping container chassis because of the intermodal and interstate nature of the industry. Your Committee further finds that due to the isolation of Hawaii as an island state, commercial harbors and shipping container chassis are essential to the delivery of necessary goods into the State. By allowing out-of-state registered shipping container chassis to obtain a safety check in Hawaii, this measure will ensure the safety, efficiency, and flexibility of supply chain flows at commercial harbors.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making it effective upon its approval.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1578, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1578, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair