Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1113 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to restore language that would permit prosecution for the illegal display or possession of a fictitious or fraudulent driver's license and the use of a false or fictitious name in applications for a driver's license.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of the Attorney General, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney, and the Honolulu Police Department.

Act 224, Session Laws of Hawaii 2002, proposed a new penal law section on identity theft, repealed the existing language in section 286-131, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the unlawful use of driver's licenses, and deleted references to fictitious or fraudulent alteration and to false or fictitious names. This deletion was not intended, according to testimony. This measure restores the deleted material.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1113, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.