STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1669

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 676
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, to which
was referred S.B. No. 676, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S
     LICENSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received, is to increase the
maximum gross vehicle weight (maximum gvw) rating of trucks and
vans for a category 3 license from 11,000 pounds to 12,000
pounds, and to increase the minimum gross vehicle weight (minimum
gvw) rating of trucks for a category 4 license from 11,001 pounds
to 12,001 pounds.

     Hawaii Transportation Association (HTA), Ryder
Transportation Services (RTS), and Legislative Information
Services of Hawaii, Inc. supported the bill.  HTA also
recommended that the maximum gvw for category 3 licenses be
increased further from 12,000 to 15,000 pounds, and the minimum
gvw for category 4 licenses be increased from 12,001 to 15,001
pounds.  RTS recommended that the minimum gvw for category 4
licenses be increased from 12,001 to 15,001 pounds.

     Your Committee notes that this bill, as amended by the prior
committee, now reflects the contents of H.B No. 11, H.D. 1, which
was passed out of your Committee earlier this session.  For
purposes of correcting a technical error in the bill's title,
which appears to have been changed inadvertently when the bill

 
 
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was earlier amended, your Committee has amended the bill to
reflect its original title, which is "Relating to Commercial
Driver's Licenses."

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 676, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto
as S.B. No. 676, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   RON MENOR, Chair