STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3175

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3183

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3183, S.D. 1, 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 pilot program for the issuance of digital identification.

Your Committees received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Hawaii Tourism Authority, and Office of Enterprise Technology Services.

Your Committees received written comments in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Establishing the substantive provisions of this measure in session law, rather than statute;

(2) Requiring the Director of Transportation to coordinate with the Office of Enterprise Technology Services, among others, to assess opportunities for the use of digital identification to improve government support to business operations, economic development, and tourism;

(3) Establishing an unspecified dissolution date for the digital identification pilot program; and

(4) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3183, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3183, S.D. 2.

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

________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair