STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3138

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1942

H.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Energy, to which was referred H.B. No. 1942, H.D. 1, 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 require the issuance of limited purpose driver's licenses, limited purpose provisional driver's licenses, or limited purposes instruction permits to applicants who voluntarily choose to obtain a REAL ID compliant State Civil Identification Card.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Filipina Advocacy Network, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that Congress enacted the REAL ID Act in 2005, creating a set of federal standards for the issuance of identification cards. The REAL ID Act allows individuals to have only one REAL ID-compliant identification card. This measure is necessary to ensure that a person who elects to hold a state civil identification card as the person's REAL ID-compliant credential is obtaining a non-compliant limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional driver's license, or limited purpose instruction permit.

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 H.B. No. 1942, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair