STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2652

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3100
                                        




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 S.B. No. 3100 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEMPORARY INSTRUCTION
     PERMIT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the term of a
driver's license learner's permit from 180 days to one year,
effective January 1, 2001.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Transportation and Department of Customer Service
of the City & County of Honolulu.

     Your Committee finds that under the current law any person,
who applies for a temporary driver instruction permit ("learner's
permit") and who the examiner of drivers in the county where the
applicant resides determines to be qualified for such permit, may
receive a learner's permit effective for one hundred eighty days.

     Your Committee agrees that extending the learner's permit to
a one year term will help new drivers, particularly minors, to
gain more road experience before taking the practical road test.
It will also simultaneously eliminate the present peer pressure
minors experience to obtain their driver's license before the
expiration of their first learner's permit.


 
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     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. 3100 and recommends that it pass
Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   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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