Bill Text: HI SB2758 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Highway; Safety Inspections; Motor Carrier Vehicles; FMCSR

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-12 - (S) Act 014, 4/12/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 470). [SB2758 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2758-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2381

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2758

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs and Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2758 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to conform Hawaii's motor carrier safety law to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations by making subject to state and county laws and regulations, including safety inspections, vehicles used in transporting material that is found to be hazardous under federal statute and transported in a quantity requiring placarding under federal rules.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that presently the State Department of Transportation's Motor Vehicle Safety Office receives federal moneys from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to fund its Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program and the New Entrant Incentive Program.  This funding allows the state motor vehicle carrier officers to enforce the Federal Motor Vehicle Carrier Safety Regulations and Hazardous Material Regulations that ultimately provide safer roads for residents and visitors. 

 

     The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has found Hawaii's motor carrier safety law to be incompatible with federal law and regulations.  This measure addresses that concern and, accordingly, avoids the withholding of federal funding.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs and Energy and Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2758 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs and Energy and Environment,

 

____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair