STAND. COM. REP. NO.  260-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2605

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2605 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SAFETY INSPECTION OF MOTOR CARRIER VEHICLES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to make sections 286-207 and 286-209, Hawaii Revised Statutes, conform with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR) to ensure continued federal funding from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to Department of Transportation's Motor Vehicle Safety Office by requiring certain vehicles transporting hazardous materials to comply with the state motor carriers safety laws.

 

     The Department of Transportation and Hawaii Transportation Association testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee notes that if the state's statutes remain incompatible with FMCSR, FMCSA funding will be withdrawn.  As a result, the State would have to find alternative means of funding to continue to enforce motor carrier safety laws on commercial motor carriers for everyone's safety on Hawaii's roads.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2605 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair