STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1036

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1528
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1528, H.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PENALTIES AND PROCEDURES ON
     ARREST,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require a law enforcement
officer to issue a citation to a driver who is operating a
vehicle without a valid driver's license in the driver's
immediate possession.  The driver is also subject to a fine of
not more than $1,000 and imprisonment for not more than thirty
days or one year if the driver has prior convictions.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Police Department of the City and County of Honolulu and Common
Cause Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that police officers have encountered
problems in obtaining true and correct identification information
from drivers who do not have a valid driver's license in their
immediate possession.  The penalties provided in this measure
will encourage drivers to carry their driver's licenses at all
times.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making the
issuance of a citation discretionary rather than mandatory.  The
Police Department believes that this amendment will give law

 
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enforcement officers the flexibility to issue a citation or
arrest drivers who do not have a valid driver's license in their
immediate possession.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1528, H.D. 2, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 1528, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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