STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2348

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2329

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2329 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROVISIONAL LICENSES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that minors who apply for a provisional license or driver's license may have requirements waived if a substantially similar requirement has been met in another state.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and two individuals.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from Mothers Against Drunk Driving Hawaii and the State Highway Safety Council.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the City and County of Honolulu, Department of Customer Services.

     Your Committees find that every state has enacted provisional driver's license laws.  Fairness dictates that full faith and credit be given to other states' laws that are comparable to our own laws.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting language that:

     (1)  Amends section 286-108(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to waiving an actual demonstration of ability to operate a motor vehicle, on the recommendation of the Department of Transportation;

     (2)  Requires the Department of Transportation to implement this measure immediately upon approval without the necessity of completing the adoption of administrative rules so that the administrative rules do not delay the implementation of this measure; and

     (3)  Makes technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2329, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2329, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair