STAND. COM. REP. NO.  742-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3023

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 3023, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER'S LICENSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to:

(1)  Extend the term of a license from six to eight years for persons who are 25 to 71 years of age;

(2)  Reduce the term of a license from six to four years for persons who are 19 to 24 years of age;

(3)  Authorize the examiner of drivers to issue a license for an unspecified, shorter period of time if the examiner determines a person's ability to drive is impaired due to a physical condition;

(4)  Allow the license of a member of the U.S. armed forces that has expired while that person was on active federal service outside of the country to remain valid for 90 days after the person returns to the U.S.; and

(5)  Repeal provisions that would allow a person whose driving ability was determined impaired to:

a.   Obtain certification from a physician confirming the person's ability to drive is not impaired by the person's physical condition;

b.   Correct the physical impairment; or

c.   Drive safely by using a vehicle adapted to overcome the physical impairment.

     A concerned individual testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu, and Counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui supported this measure but suggested an amendment. 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to November 3, 2008; and

     (2)  Making technical and nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style, and to ensure that these amendments to section 286-106 are kept when Act 72, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, is repealed on January 9, 2011, which would have automatically repealed these amendments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3023, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3023, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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TOMMY WATERS, Chair