STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2713

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2604

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2604, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL DRIVER LICENSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to extend the expiration date for an initial commercial driver's license from a period of not less than two or six years to a period of not more than eight years, expiring on the driver's birthday.

 

     This measure also makes an appropriation out of the State Highway Fund for the purpose of implementing an extension of the commercial driver's license to prepare for the REAL ID Act.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, the City and County of Honolulu and the Hawaii Transportation Association.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure prepares the State for the federal REAL ID Act, which is a nationwide effort to improve the integrity and security of state-issued driver licenses and identification cards, which in turn will help fight terrorism and reduce fraud.  This measure also provides greater consistency between the various identification cards and licenses in Hawaii.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to:

 

     (1)  Change the effective date to July 1, 2010;

 

     (2)  Restore an appropriation amount of $8,000 which was previously deleted in the H.D. 2 version; and

 

     (3)  Make technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2604, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2604, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair