STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3233

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     H.B. No. 2493

        H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2493, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to create two new commercial driver's license restrictions relating to operating a commercial motor vehicle in excess of eighteen thousand pounds gross vehicle weight rating and operating a commercial motor vehicle on Lanai and Molokai only.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that, without traveling to another island, it is currently impossible to obtain a standard commercial driver's license on Molokai or Lanai.  Commercial driver license applicants on Molokai and Lanai cannot adequately demonstrate essential driving skills, including the ability to choose a safe gap for changing lanes, passing other vehicles, and crossing or entering traffic and the ability to signal appropriately when changing direction in traffic.  Your Committee further finds that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Association has determined that the restricted commercial driver's license road tests on Lanai and Molokai do not meet federal standards.  This measure will create a new restricted commercial driver's license for those on Lanai and Molokai.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2493, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Culture and the Arts,

 

 

 

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CHRIS LEE, Chair