Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 698 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that the State Identification Office of the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center is required to take a full frontal photograph of an applicant's face for purposes of issuing a Hawaii State Identification Card.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that this measure is designed to clarify that the State Identification Office is required to take a full frontal photograph of an applicant's face for a State Identification Card. This will ensure that any person examining a State Identification Card is able to accurately identify and match the photograph on the State Identification Card to the person presenting the State Identification Card.

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 S.B. No. 698 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.