STAND. COM. REP. NO. 20

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1164
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1164 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the director to
enter into a driver's license reciprocity agreement with a
foreign jurisdiction, to exempt drivers over age eighteen
licensed under that jurisdiction to operate class one, two, or
three, or a combination of these categories, from the Hawaii road
test requirement.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Transportation (DOT).

     Your Committee finds that this measure will expedite the
procedures for drivers from a foreign jurisdiction, while
providing the same expedited service to Hawaii drivers in that
jurisdiction, through the use of reciprocal agreements.

     Your Committee further finds that any reciprocal agreement
will be subject to a review involving the DOT, the counties, and
the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, which
is forming a work group to study the issue of foreign reciprocal
agreements to ensure these agreements do not result in reducing
any driver licensing standard.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1164 and recommends that it pass
Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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