STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3176

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 568

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 568 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to eliminate gender or sex markers from limited purpose driver's licenses or limited purpose provisional driver's licenses.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women, LGBT Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Pono Hawai‘i Initiative, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii, and eight individuals. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committees find that Hawaii has the largest percentage of transgender individuals in the United States. Your Committees further find that gender and sex markers on state driver's licenses cause difficulty and invasive questioning in everyday transactions for the transgender community, and increase the likelihood of discrimination for transgender and gender non-conforming people when seeking employment, registering to vote, applying for insurance, interacting with law enforcement, opening a bank account, renting an apartment, and a variety of other activities. This measure allows transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals to avoid invasive questioning and discriminatory treatment by removing gender or sex markers from limited purpose driver's licenses and limited purpose provisional driver's licenses.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making it effective on October 1, 2020.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 568, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 568, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair