STAND. COM. REP. NO. 585

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1690
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 1690 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER
     LICENSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to exempt foreign nationals,
foreign students and diplomatic and consular officials from
foreign driver's license surrender and invalidation requirements.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Consulate of Sweden.

     Your Committee finds that this bill enables foreign
nationals, foreign students and diplomatic and consular officials
to obtain a Hawaii driver's license without having to invalidate
their foreign driver's license.  This bill establishes the
procedure for the temporary surrender of such licences.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     1) Deleting foreign nationals and foreign students from
subsection (d); and

     2) Defining "diplomatic and consular officials."

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to

 
 
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this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 1690, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
1690, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair