STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2984

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1758
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1758, H.D. 2, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the measure is to give the Department of
Transportation an additional year to effectuate Act 175, Session
Laws of Hawaii 1999, which provides for a statewide driver
education program and behind the wheel driver training program.

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

     Your Committee has amended the measure by adding a new
section to require that when a person is at least sixteen years
of age but under eighteen years of age and has been granted a
license, the person must have a licensed driver at least twenty-
one years of age in the motor vehicle after 11:00 p.m. or before
5:00 a.m., and that all occupants of the motor vehicle during
that time must wear seatbelts.  

     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 H.B. No. 1758, H.D. 2, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached

 
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hereto as H.B. No. 1758, H.D. 2, 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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