REPORT TITLE:
Certificates of Identification


DESCRIPTION:
Changes the expiration date of State ID cards to coincide with a
person's birth date, and allows renewal by mail for persons 65
years and older. (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO CERTIFICATES OF IDENTIFICATION.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The purposes of this Act are:
 
 2      (1)  To change the expiration date on the state
 
 3           identification card to coincide with an individual's
 
 4           birthday in the year it expires; and
 
 5      (2)  To provide the option for renewal by mail for certain
 
 6           individuals.
 
 7      SECTION 2.  Section 846-27, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 8 amended to read as follows:
 
 9      "�846-27  Registration and issuance of certificates; fee;
 
10 revolving fund.(a)  Every person residing or present in the
 
11 State may be registered, and have issued to the person a
 
12 certificate of identification, under this part.
 
13      (b)  Application for the registration shall be made in
 
14 person by any adult person or minor over the age of fourteen
 
15 years.  In the case of a minor under the age of fourteen years,
 
16 the application shall be made in the minor's behalf by the
 
17 parent, or by another person in loco parentis of such minor who
 
18 can provide proof of guardianship.  In the case of an incompetent
 
19 person, the application shall be made by the person having the
 
20 custody or control of or maintaining the incompetent person.
 

 
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 1      (c)  Application for renewal of a certificate of
 
 2 identification issued after November 1, 1998, for a person sixty-
 
 3 five years and older may be done by mailing in a completed
 
 4 application and fee, if there is no change in name and
 
 5 citizenship. 
 
 6      [(c)] (d)  There is established in the state treasury a
 
 7 revolving fund to be known as the state identification revolving
 
 8 fund.  The fund shall consist of all fees assessed for the
 
 9 processing and issuance of certificates of identification under
 
10 this part.  The fund shall be administered by the attorney
 
11 general for the purposes of this part.
 
12      [(d)] (e)  The fund shall be held separate and apart from
 
13 all other moneys, funds, and accounts in the state treasury.
 
14 Interest and investment earnings credited to the assets of the
 
15 fund shall become a part of the fund.  Any balance remaining in
 
16 the fund at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward
 
17 in the fund for the next fiscal year."
 
18      SECTION 3.  Section 846-30.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
19 amended to read as follows:
 
20      "[[]�846-30.5[]]  Expiration date.  Every certificate of
 
21 identification issued under this part, whether an original or a
 
22 renewal, shall bear an expiration date which shall be on the
 
23 person's birthday, six years after the [date] year of issuance;
 

 
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 1 provided that if the person is a legal nonimmigrant, the
 
 2 certificate shall bear an expiration date that is the same as the
 
 3 expiration date on the person's Immigration and Naturalization
 
 4 Service departure card (I-94).  All certificates of
 
 5 identification issued without expiration dates shall expire on
 
 6 December 31, 1999[.] ; provided that for any certificate issued
 
 7 with an expiration date other than the person's birthday, the
 
 8 certificate shall not expire until the person's next birthday
 
 9 following the certificate's stated expiration date."
 
10      SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
11 New statutory material is underscored.
 
12      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000.