STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1159

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1280
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1280 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enable the Public Utilities
Commission (PUC) to expedite motor carrier transportation
services when an urgent need exists.

     Your Committee finds that under the present statute, prior
to granting a temporary authority to provide transportation
services by the PUC, an applicant must first provide proof that
an application was first served upon every current holder of a
certificate of public convenience and necessity within the
classification for which the temporary authority is being
applied.  Your Committee further finds that this requirement
delays the PUC in providing vehicle transportation, even in times
of emergency.

     This bill proposes to permit the PUC, at its discretion, to
grant temporary authority to a common or contract carrier to
provide transportation services when an urgent need arises for a
period of no more than one-hundred-twenty days.

     Testimonies in support of this measure were received from
the PUC, and from the Division of Consumer Advocacy, Department
of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.


 
 
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     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.
1280 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.

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



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                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair