STAND. COM. REP. NO. 879

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 155
                                        S.D. 2




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 S.B. No.
155, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is
to prohibit the use of social security numbers on driver's
licenses after July 31, 2000, and to require the Director of
Transportation to implement a new system of assigning unique
identification numbers to motor vehicle licenses.

     Your Committee finds that the widespread use of social
security numbers in the private sector to identify individuals
tracked by financial, credit, educational, and other
institutions, has facilitated the criminal practice of identity
theft through unlawful use of another's social security number.
Hawaii's statewide practice of using social security numbers as
driver's license numbers makes it a relatively simple matter for
con artists and other unscrupulous people to obtain social
security numbers for their vile deceptions.

     Your Committee further finds that rules promulgated by the
federal Department of Transportation will require states,
beginning in October 2000, to collect and verify the social
security numbers of driver's license applicants and, unless a
state explicitly does not so require, to use the social security
numbers on the licenses.  Thus, Hawaii must collect social
security numbers as part of the driver's license application to

 
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comply with these rules, but may provide by statute that the
numbers shall not appear on the driver's license itself.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Office of Information Practices.  Testimony in support of this
measure with amendments was submitted by the Department of
Transportation and the Department of Customer Services of the
City and County of Honolulu.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by:

     (1)  Removing a provision that would have deleted the social
          security number from the list of information to be
          collected in the application for a commercial driver's
          license, to comply with federal requirements regarding
          commercial driver's licensing;

     (2)  Adding a provision to require collection of social
          security numbers as part of the general driver's
          license application; and

     (3)  Changing from July 31, 2000, to July 31, 2001, the date
          after which new or renewed licenses may not include the
          social security number, to allow additional time for
          the Department of Transportation and the counties to
          implement the new driver's licensing procedures.

     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 S.B.
No. 155, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 155,
S.D. 2.

                                   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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