STAND. COM. REP. NO.146

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: S.B. No. 637

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 637 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require driver's licenses and state identification cards to display a person's date of birth in a form that can be read and displayed electronically.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, the Office of the Attorney General, the Departments of Customer Services and Budget and Fiscal Services of the City and County of Honolulu, four members of the Maui County Council, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Hawaii Dental Professionals, Legislative Information Services of Hawaii, nine members of Youth in Action, and sixteen concerned citizens.

Your Committees find that underage drinking is a serious problem in this State that could be substantially reduced if dates of birth on driver's licenses and state identification cards could be read electronically by sellers of liquor and by the police.

In addition, your Committees find that it would be much more difficult to alter an identification card or driver's license if the date of birth is imprinted electronically. This would also impact underage drinking.

Your Committees amended this measure to delay its effective date until January 1, 2002, to give the departments sufficient time to comply with the requirements of this bill. Your Committees also included a provision to increase the appropriation ceiling for the state identification revolving fund by $10,118, to cover the costs to be incurred by the Hawaii criminal justice data center to comply with this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 637, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 637, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair