STAND. COM. REP. NO. 17

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 687
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 687 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish a graduated
licensing procedure for persons under the age of seventeen.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from the
Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Police Department
for the City and County of Honolulu, State Farm Insurance
Company, Keiki Injury Prevention Coalition, and one individual.  

     Testimony in support of the intent of the bill was received
from the Department of Transportation, Department of Customer
Services for the City and County of Honolulu, and Mothers Against
Drunk Driving.

     Your Committee finds that young people between the ages of
15 and 20 are statistically overrepresented in motor vehicle
fatalities nationwide.  In Hawaii, from 1993 through 1997, young
people between the ages of 15 through 17 years represented over 8
percent of the traffic deaths.

     Your Committee further finds that a graduated driver
licensing system is designed to teach young drivers how to drive
by controlling their progression towards a full licensing

 
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privilege.  It does this through education, both on and off the
roadway; by always having a supervising adult present; and by
restricting the time of the day they may drive and who can be in
the vehicle with them.  This will teach young drivers good
judgment and help them to develop experience, adequate driving
skills, and responsibility on the roadway.

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments
to the bill, and updated one provision to reflect 1998
amendments, to the Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 687, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 687, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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