Report Title:

Commercial Driver's License

Description:

Clarifies the regulation of "hazardous materials endorsement" for commercial driver's licensing applications and renewals.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2505

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DrIVER LICENSING.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 286-239, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (g) to read as follows:

"(g) An initial or renewed commercial driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement shall expire no later than five years from its date of issuance, except if the licensee is seventy-two years of age or older. The expiration date of a commercial driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement shall be the same expiration date as the hazardous materials endorsement. If the licensee is seventy-two years of age or older, the initial or renewed commercial driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement shall not exceed two years. All other initial commercial driver's [license] licenses shall be valid for not less than a two- or six-year period, beginning on the driver's birthday. [Renewal] All other renewed licenses shall be valid for not more than a two- or six-year period from the expiration date of the previous valid license. [The] With the exception of a commercial driver's license with a hazardous materials endorsement, the commercial driver's license shall expire on the next birthday of the licensee occurring six years after the date of issuance of the license unless sooner revoked, suspended, or canceled; provided that, unless sooner revoked, the license shall expire on the second birthday of the licensee following the issuance of the license if at that time the licensee is seventy-two years of age or older."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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