STAND. COM. REP. NO. 787

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 823

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 823, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

(1) Provide an exemption for flatbed trucks from registration renewals and initial registrations of motor carrier vehicles when used as marine terminal equipment temporarily moving in or between certain terminals; and

(2) Add new terminal locales, times, and roadways to be covered under the exemption.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and fifty-eight individuals.

Your Committee finds that existing law limits unregistered motor vehicles used as marine terminal equipment to operate only between specified terminals on public roads. This measure allows for unregistered flatbed trucks to also be used temporarily as marine terminal equipment to expediate movement between terminals and also expands the list of roadways that may be used by marine terminal equipment.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 823, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 823, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

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JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair