STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2289

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2759
                                        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 S.B. No.
2759 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 of
state identification cards to coincide with cardholders'
birthdays, and to provide an option for elderly cardholders 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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     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Attorney General and the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by changing the new expiration date to the cardholder's
first birthday after the printed expiration date, rather than the
cardholder's last birthday before the printed expiration date, to
provide adequate notice to cardholders when they are first
seeking renewals.

     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 S.B. No.
2759, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2759, S.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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