STAND. COM. REP. NO. 300-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1942

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1942 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of limited purpose driver's licenses, limited purpose provisional driver's licenses, and limited purpose instruction permits to applicants who voluntarily choose to obtain a REAL ID compliant State Civil Identification Card.

The Department of Transportation, The Filipino Community Center, Inc., Filipina Advocacy Network, Hawai‘i Friends of Civil Rights, UNITE HERE Local 5, and an individual supported this measure. The Maui Police Department opposed this measure.

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 H.B. No. 1942 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,

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair