STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1052-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2491

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2491, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER'S LICENSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to update the special penalties related to commercial motor vehicle employer and driver out-of-service violations and railroad-highway grade crossing violations to conform with federal regulations.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that it is necessary to update the civil penalties for certain violations by commercial driver's license drivers and their employers to comply with federal regulations.

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2491, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2491, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair