STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2519

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3183

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 3183 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Director of Transportation to establish and implement a digital identification pilot program.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Office of Enterprise Technology Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Department of Customer Services, and NEC Corporation of America. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Libertarian Party of Hawaii and one individual. Your Committees received comments on this measure from Common Cause Hawaii and one individual.

Your Committees find that implementation of digital identification could increase both the accuracy and efficiency of many processes and agencies in the future. This measure establishes a pilot program for digitize driver's licenses and government-issued identification cards.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Removing language relating to federal REAL ID;

(2) Requiring digital license renewals to provide for automatic voter registration;

(3) Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(4) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3183, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3183, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Government Operations,

________________________________ SHARON MORIWAKI, Chair

________________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair