STAND. COM. REP. NO.  472-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2404

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2404 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to make permanent the statutory requirements for provisional driver's licenses for persons who are at least 16 and less than 18 years of age, including, among other things, conditions under which:

     (1)  A provisional licensee may transport passengers under the age of 18;

     (2)  The provisional licensee must be accompanied in the vehicle by a licensed parent or guardian; and

     (3)  The provisional licensee may drive to and from a place of employment or school-authorized activity without being accompanied by a licensed parent or guardian.

     The Department of Transportation, Department of Health, City and County of Honolulu's Department of Customer Services, Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hawaii, and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company testified in support of this bill. 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Extending the repeal date for Act 72, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, by two years, to January 9, 2013, rather than making Act 72 permanent; and

     (2)  Restoring the reenactment language of Act 72.

     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. 2404, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2404, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair