STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2545

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2275

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 2275 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make permanent the motor vehicle insurance requirements for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers in Act 236, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Hawaii Insurers Council, Uber Technologies, and Lyft.

 

Your Committee finds that the motor vehicle insurance requirements for transportation network companies and transportation network company drivers established in Act 236, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016, were set to be repealed on September 1, 2021. The purpose of this measure is to make those requirements permanent.

 

     Your Committee notes that S.B. No. 2542 (Regular Session of 2022), which was heard by your Committee, is a substantially similar measure that additionally establishes statewide regulation of transportation network companies to provide operational consistency across the State and to establish a permitting process within the Department of Transportation.  Your Committee concludes that this measure is the best vehicle to move forward and that the language in part I of S.B. No. 2542 should be incorporated into this measure.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting the contents of part I of S.B. No. 2542, to establish a statewide regulation of transportation network companies;

 

     (2)  Clarifying the definition of "transportation network company" to have the same meaning as defined in section 431:10C-701, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for consistency;

 

     (3)  Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     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. 2275, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2275, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

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

 

 

 

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CHRIS LEE, Chair