STAND. COM. REP. NO. 310-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2116

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2116 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Examiner of Drivers of a county to conduct the testing of an applicant for a driver's license to demonstrate the ability to exercise ordinary and reasonable control in the operation of a motor vehicle in English or in certain other languages at the request of the applicant.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee believes that requiring county Examiners of Drivers to conduct the testing of driver's license applicants' ability to demonstrate the exercise of ordinary and reasonable control in the operation of a motor vehicle in the applicant's preferred language will promote greater road safety across the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2116, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2116, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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CHRIS TODD, Chair