STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1238

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 992
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No.
992, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES
     OF IDENTIFICATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the bill is to give the Department of the
Attorney General discretion as to the information displayed on
state identification cards by removing the requirement that the
card contain specific information such as the registrant's social
security number, issue date, name, residence, citizenship, the
attorney general's signature, and the registrar's signature.

     Your Committee finds that there has been a growing concern
over the display of an individual's social security number on the
state identification card.  An increasing number of individuals
have requested that their social security number be removed from
the identification card because of their fear of potential fraud.
Your Committee further finds that many individuals are not able
to obtain a social security number because the Social Security
Administration recently adopted a policy that restricts the
issuance of social security numbers only to those individuals
authorized to work in the United States.

     Although your Committee recognizes that the lack of a social
security number on the state identification card might diminish
the value of its use as a personal identification card, your
Committee notes that the Department of the Attorney General

 
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testified that the Retail Merchant's Association has indicated
that their members would accept a state identification card with
an alternative identification number for check writing purposes.  

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of the Attorney General.

     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.
992, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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