STAND. COM. REP. NO. 10-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1758
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B.
No. 1758 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 give the Department of
Transportation an additional year to effectuate Act 175, SLH
1999.

     Your Committee finds that Act 175, which was to become
effective on January 1, 2001, provided for a graduated licensing
procedure, including the stipulation that every applicant for a
driver's license under the age of eighteen must complete a driver
education program and behind-the-wheel driver training course
certified by the director of transportation. Your Committee
further finds by giving the Department of Transportation an
additional year to effectuate Act 175 that the programs can be
better implemented.
 
     The bill proposes to amend Act 175, SLH 1999, by amending
the effective date to be January 1, 2002.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from the
Department of Transportation.

     Your committee has amended this bill by changing line 4 from
"2002." to "except for section 2, subsection (b) which is to take

 
 
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effect on January 1, 2001."  Act 175, 1999 SLH, increased the
minimum age for a driver's license to 16 years.  Section 2.
subsection (b) clarifies that the driver education program and
behind-the-wheel driver training program take effect upon 2002,
but that the minimum age of a driver's license increase to 16 is
effective January 1, 2001.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1758, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1758, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair