STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1323

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1053

H.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1053, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE IDENTIFICATION CARDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the mandatory inscription for civil identification cards to conform with the currently used inscription.

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

Your Committee finds that the state civil identification card was erroneously produced with the inscription "Hawaii Identification Card", rather than "State of Hawaii Identification Card", as mandated by statute. Your Committee further finds that there are numerous residents who are already carrying the cards with the incorrect inscription. Your Committee believes that requiring the residents to receive a corrected identification card would cause a great deal of inconvenience and it would be more expedient and economical to amend the statutorily mandated inscription to conform to the identification cards currently in use.

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. 1053, 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,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair