Bill Text: HI HB1743 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Driver Licensing

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-04 - (S) Act 010, 4/4/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1110). [HB1743 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1743-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  246-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1743

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1743 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the gross vehicle weight rating allowed for trucks and vans that may be operated by a driver with a category 3 license from 15,000 pounds to 18,000 pounds.

 

     The Hawaii Transportation Association and Penske Truck Leasing testified in support of this measure.  The City and County of Honolulu's Division of Motor Vehicle, Licensing and Permits Administration provided comments on the measure. 

 

     Your Committee finds that since 2007 truck manufacturers have been upgrading truck engines to comply with federal safety and environmental mandates, thereby making trucks heavier.  This measure will allow operators to drive these newly designed trucks with a category 3 license.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1743 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair