STAND. COM. REP. NO. 165

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 935

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 935 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that a driver's license issued to a person who is seventy-one years of age or older expire on the licensee's seventy-ninth birthday or two years from the date of the issuance of the license, whichever is later.

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

     Your Committee finds that older drivers vary greatly in their ability to drive.  This measure is intended to level the playing field while preserving public safety.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Blanking out the specified age at which the expiration requirements shall apply;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 935, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 935, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

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

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair