STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2614

                                   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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2759, S.D. 1, 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 in the year it expires.

     The bill also provides an option for elderly cardholders to
renew by mail.

     Your Committee finds that the effect of having state
identification cards expire all at once has created severe
administrative problems for the State and resulted 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 allowing cardholders
over sixty-five years old to renew their cards by mail will
result in a process that is easier for the cardholders and the
State, without seriously impairing the accuracy of the
information and photograph on the card.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2759, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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