REPORT TITLE:
Certificates of Identification


DESCRIPTION:
>Proposes to change the expiration date of State ID cards to
coincide with a person's birth date, and to allow renewal by mail
for persons 65 years and older.

 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO CERTIFICATES OF IDENTIFICATION.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The purposes of this Act are:
 
 2      (1)  To change the expiration date on the state
 
 3           identification card to coincide with an individual's
 
 4           birthday in the year it expires; and
 
 5      (2)  To provide the option for renewal by mail for certain
 
 6           individuals.
 
 7      SECTION 2.  Section 846-27, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 8 amended to read as follows:
 
 9      "§846-27  Registration and issuance of certificates; fee;
 
10 revolving fund.(a)  Every person residing or present in the
 
11 State may be registered, and have issued to the person a
 
12 certificate of identification, under this part.
 
13      (b)  Application for the registration shall be made in
 
14 person by any adult person or minor over the age of fourteen
 
15 years.  In the case of a minor under the age of fourteen years,
 
16 the application shall be made in the minor's behalf by the
 
17 parent, or by another person in loco parentis of such minor who
 
18 can provide proof of guardianship.  In the case of an incompetent
 
19 person, the application shall be made by the person having the
 

 
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 1 custody or control of or maintaining the incompetent person.
 
 2      (c)  Application for renewal of a certificate of
 
 3 identification issued after November 1, 1998, for a person sixty-
 
 4 five years and older may be done by mailing in a completed
 
 5 application and fee, if there is no change in name and
 
 6 citizenship. 
 
 7      [(c)] (d)  There is established in the state treasury a
 
 8 revolving fund to be known as the state identification revolving
 
 9 fund.  The fund shall consist of all fees assessed for the
 
10 processing and issuance of certificates of identification under
 
11 this part.  The fund shall be administered by the attorney
 
12 general for the purposes of this part.
 
13      [(d)] (e)  The fund shall be held separate and apart from
 
14 all other moneys, funds, and accounts in the state treasury.
 
15 Interest and investment earnings credited to the assets of the
 
16 fund shall become a part of the fund.  Any balance remaining in
 
17 the fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward
 
18 in the fund for the next fiscal year."
 
19      SECTION 3.  Section 846-30.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
20 amended to read as follows:
 
21      "[[]§846-30.5[]]  Expiration date.  Every certificate of
 
22 identification issued under this part, whether an original or a
 
23 renewal, shall bear an expiration date which shall be on the
 

 
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 1 person's birthday, six years after the [date] year of issuance;
 
 2 provided that if the person is a legal nonimmigrant, the
 
 3 certificate shall bear an expiration date that is the same as the
 
 4 expiration date on the person's Immigration and Naturalization
 
 5 Service departure card (I-94).  All certificates of
 
 6 identification issued without expiration dates shall expire on
 
 7 December 31, 1999.  To provide for the transition to expiration
 
 8 dates that are birthdays of the persons issued certificates, any
 
 9 certificate issued to a person with an expiration date other than
 
10 the birthday of that person in the year of expiration shall
 
11 expire on that person's last birthday immediately preceding the
 
12 certificate's stated expiration date."
 
13      SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
14 New statutory material is underscored.
 
15      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000.
 
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17                       INTRODUCED BY:  ___________________________
 

 
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