STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2115

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2934

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Energy, to which was referred S.B. No. 2934 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to ensure driver license procedures are compliant with the federal REAL ID Act.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

     Your Committee finds that existing law does not require that a renewed driver's license contain a photograph of the licensee.  This violates the REAL ID Act which requires "[a] digital photograph of the person", among other things.  Your Committee further finds that the REAL ID Act also requires an applicant to appear in person to renew their license if sixteen years have passed since the applicant last appeared in person.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Energy that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2934, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2934, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Energy,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair