STAND. COM. REP. NO.  372

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 623

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 623 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE IDENTIFICATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the Attorney General to contract with the counties to process and issue state certificates of identification.  This bill also allows state identification administration to be carried out at county facilities.

     The Waipahu Neighborhood Board testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Customer Services of the City & County of Honolulu offered comments.

     Your Committee notes that the City & County of Honolulu has sought clarification concerning reimbursement from the State to the counties in the event that counties assume the operations allowed under this measure. Your Committee understands that the terms of payment and other considerations between the State and counties will be negotiated and clarified in the contract documents, and therefore does not find it necessary at this time to require reimbursement in the wording of the proposed statute.

     Your Committee has made non-substantive revisions to this measure to recognize the fact that counties other than the city and county of Honolulu do not have satellite city halls.

     Your Committee has also amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to January 1, 2046, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 623, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 623, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair