STAND. COM. REP. NO. 132-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1769
                                     




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. 1769 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 expedite the issuance of
driver's licenses without identifying social security numbers for
licensees whose licenses are not nearing expiration.

     Your Committee finds that the legislature authorized the
issuance of driver's licenses for new and renewed licenses
without social security number identifications during the 1999
session, to be effective on January 1, 2001. Your Committee
further finds that a driver's license is the most used means of
identification on the many occasions for which identification is
required.  Your Committee further finds that, since most driver's
licenses are now issued for six years, licensees may have several
years before renewal is required, thus continuing to have the
social security number subject to misuse by unscrupulous others.

     This bill proposes that any driver whose license expires
after January 1, 2002, who requests a replacement driver's
license without a social security number imprint, shall receive a
free replacement license if application is made between 
January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2001.


 
 
 
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     Testimonies in support of this measure were received from
the Office of Information Practices and from a citizen whose
license does not expire until 2005.  Testimonies in opposition
were received from the Department of Transportation, which
restricted its opposition to commercial licenses, and from the
city and county of Honolulu.  

     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.
1769 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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



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                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair