STAND. COM. REP. NO.  860

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1640

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1640, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CERTIFICATES OF IDENTIFICATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the convenience of obtaining civil identification by, among other things, requiring the Attorney General, in cooperation with the Director of Transportation and appropriate county agencies, to create a program allowing such agencies to issue civil identification at locations where driver's licenses are issued.

     The Department of the Attorney General provided comments on this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Requiring the Attorney General to allow county employees to issue certificates of identification rather than requiring a program to allow the same;

     (2)  Providing that the authorization to allow county employees to issue certificates of identification will take effect on January 1, 2013; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1640, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1640, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair