Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 133 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require persons under the age of 65, who renew their driver's licenses, to submit to a vision test every ten years, and persons 65 and older to submit to a vision test every four years.

The Department of Customer Services, City and County of Honolulu submitted comments. The Department of Transportation testified in opposition of this measure.

Existing law requires the passage of a vision test as a requirement for processing a driver's license renewal. Generally, a person's vision is adversely affected as a person increases in age, so it makes sense to subject older drivers to a vision test with greater frequency than younger drivers. Your Committee finds that it would improve the efficiency of the renewal process to decrease the frequency of the vision test requirement for younger drivers.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill to:

1. Require persons under the age of 72 to pass a vision test every other renewal or every 12 years;
2. Require persons age 72 and over to be tested every other renewal or every four years; and
3. Make technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 133, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 133, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.