STAND. COM. REP. NO.556

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 127

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 127 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill, as received, is to create a new felony for the sale or manufacture of deceptive identification documents.

Your Committee received testimony in favor of the measure from the Honolulu Police Department. The Office of the Public Defender provided comments.

Your Committee amended this bill by deleting the contents and replacing it with provisions which:

(1) Prohibit the use of social security numbers for recording, identification, or informational purposes on a variety of state and county government documents, records and forms; and

(2) Provide for the transition to new forms and identification numbers.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 127, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 127, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair