Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 324 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable a person who is ineligible to obtain a social security number to provide alternative documentation for a driver's license application.

The East-West Center and a concerned citizen testified in support of this bill. The Department of Transportation, the University of Hawaii, and a concerned citizen testified in support of the intent of this bill. The Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu and the American Immigration Lawyers Association Hawaii Chapter submitted comments.

Your Committee finds this bill will benefit members of the international community who are legally present in Hawaii but who are not authorized for employment.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 324, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 324, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.