STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2869

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2418
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No.
2418 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CERTIFICATES OF
     IDENTIFICATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to change the expiration date on
the state identification card to coincide with a cardholder's
birthday, and to provide an option for cardholders over sixty-
five to renew by mail.

     Your Committee finds that having state identification cards
expire all at once creates severe administrative problems.  The
cardholders, whose cards all expired at the end of 1999, came in
en masse to renew the cards during the last two weeks of
December, resulting in enormous lines and delays.  Your Committee
believes that use of a cardholder's birthday as the expiration
date will ensure that future card renewals will be more evenly
spread out through the year.  Your Committee further finds that
the requirement that all cardholders come in person to renew
their cards presents particular problems for some elderly
cardholders.  Your Committee believes that allowing cardholders
over sixty-five years old to renew their cards by mail will make
the process easier for the cardholders and the State, without
seriously impairing the accuracy of the information and
photograph on the card.


 
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     Your Committee heard testimony that disabled persons, too,
find it difficult to stand in line to renew their cards.
However, your Committee also heard testimony that the Attorney
General makes every effort to accommodate disabled persons and
serve them first.  Your Committee also notes that non-elderly
disabled persons may change more in appearance over a six year
period than would elderly persons.

     Your Committee heard testimony that the Attorney General
intends to send out letters to cardholders asking them to renew
their cards on their birthdays, rather than on the printed
expiration date of the card.  Your Committee encourages the
Attorney General to do this, as having cardholders renew over the
course of the year preceding the printed expiration date will
help avert another card expiration crisis.  However, your
Committee believes that having an actual expiration date that is
different from the expiration date on the card will create
confusion, whether the actual expiration date is before or after
the date printed on the card.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Attorney General, the Executive Office on Aging, the Disability
and Communication Access Board, and Government Efficiency Teams,
Inc.

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

     (1)  Adding a provision that the fee shall be reduced for
          senior citizens;

     (2)  Adding language describing the fee reduction to the
          purpose section of the bill;

     (3)  Deleting a provision that would have made the statutory
          expiration date for current cards occur before the
          expiration date printed on the cards; and

     (4)  Making technical, non-substantive changes for the
          purposes of clarity and style.

     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 H.B. No.
2418, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2418, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



                                   ______________________________
                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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