STAND. COM. REP. NO. 59

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1168
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1168 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the State to
license a driver with a valid and qualified commercial driver's
license issued by another state or a Canadian province, without
requiring the driver to pass a knowledge or skills test, unless a
hazardous materials endorsement is required.

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

     Your Committee finds that this amendment will promote
consistency within the State in the administration of the
commercial driver's license program, while adhering to compliance
with the minimum federal standards for commercial driver's
licensing.

     Your Committee is in support of this measure, and has made
technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1168, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached

 
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hereto as S.B. No. 1168, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar
for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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