Report Title:

Provisional licenses; parental consent

Description:

Adds the requirement of written consent from a parent or legal guardian for issuance of a provisional license to a minor.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	20
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to requiring written consent from a parent or legal guardian for the issuance of provisional licenses.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 286-102.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "§286-102.6 Provisional license for persons under the age of eighteen.  [Section repealed on January 9, 2011.  L 2005, c 72, §15]  (a)  A person may be granted a provisional license to drive passenger cars of any gross vehicle weight rating, buses designed to transport fifteen or fewer occupants, and trucks and vans having a gross vehicle weight rating of fifteen thousand pounds or less if the person:

     (1)  Is at least sixteen years of age but under the age of eighteen;

     (2)  Holds an instruction permit and has held the permit for a period of at least one hundred eighty days and there is no pending proceeding that might result in the suspension or revocation of the instruction permit; [and]

     (3)  Satisfactorily completes all requirements of sections 286-108 and 286-109; and

(4) Submits written consent of at least one parent or one legal guardian to the examiner of drivers at the time of the examination under section 286-108."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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