STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1608-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2934

      S.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2934, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that Hawaii driver's license procedures comply with the federal REAL ID Act of 2005.  Specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Removes the authorization to renew a driver's license without incorporating a photograph of the licensee;

     (2)  Prohibits any driver's license of an applicant for license renewal to be renewed by mail for more than two consecutive renewals on the applicant's eighth birthday after issuance of the license, rather than on the applicant's sixth birthday after issuance;

     (3)  Requires an applicant to appear in person to renew the applicant's license if sixteen years have passed since the applicant last appeared in person; and

     (4)  Allows the examiner of drivers to waive written or oral examinations in certain circumstances.

The Department of Transportation supported this measure.

     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 S.B. No. 2934, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair