Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 252 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide a driver education tax credit equal to an unspecified percentage of the cost of tuition for a driver education or behind-the-wheel driver training program.

Persons under the age of eighteen are required to take a driver education course prior to obtaining a driver's license in Hawaii. Your Committee notes that these courses, while designed to promote safe driving among Hawaii's teenagers, can be costly and that a tax credit may be helpful to persons paying for these courses.

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. 252 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Education.