Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2322 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize all licensed drivers to apply for renewal by mail.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and the Honolulu City and County Department of Customer Services.

Your Committees find that under existing law, only persons who are temporarily absent from the State may apply for renewal of a driver's license by mail.

Your Committees further find that since there are no residency requirements for initial issuance of a driver's license, and since persons applying for renewal by mail must still undergo a physical examination, renewal by mail should be offered to all licensed drivers.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2322 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.