Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1725 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to:

1. Allow renewal of all category (1), (2), and (3) driver's licenses by mail, regardless of whether the licensed driver is temporarily out-of-state;
2. Treat a driver applying for license renewal by mail more than ninety days after the expiration of the license, as an applicant for reactivation of an expired license; and
3. Make a technical, nonsubstantive amendment to the provisions of the license renewal law that prohibit more than two consecutive renewals by mail.

Your Committee finds that only residents who are out-of-state may renew their driver's license by mail, and finds no reason to restrict renewal by mail to this group since these renewal applicants must first undergo a physical examination, and there are no residency restrictions on the initial issuance of a driver's license.

Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the provisions that classify a renewal more than ninety days after expiration of a license as a reactivation of an expired license, because these provisions do not fall within the title of this bill. Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 1725, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1725, H.D. 1.