STAND. COM. REP. NO. 12

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 155
                                        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 S.B. No. 155 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to disallow the use of a
driver's social security number on a driver's license issued or
renewed after December 31, 1999, and require use of a new
identification numbering system for driver's licenses.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Transportation and the Office of Information
Practices.  Comments were received from the Judiciary.

     Testimony received by your Committee indicated that because
social security numbers have been used in the private sector to
identify an individual's interest with financial, educational,
credit and medical institutions, as well as marketing, retail,
and other consumer-oriented institutions, an unscrupulous person
may easily use a social security number to steal a person's
identity and use it for illegal purposes.  Currently, a person's
social security number may be obtained from a Hawaii driver's
license.

     Further testimony indicated that implementation by the
Judiciary and the Department of Transportation of the necessary
changes to the affected computer systems by December 31, 1999,
may not be possible and that more time would be needed.

 
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     Upon consideration of all pertinent issues and testimony
presented, your Committee finds that removing the social security
numbers from driver's licenses and implementing a new
identification numbering system will further secure the privacy
of personal information.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the date
after which driver's licenses shall no longer include a driver's
social security number and when the new numbering system is to be
implemented from December 31, 1999, to July 31, 2000, in order to
provide state agencies more time to modify the affected computer
systems.

     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 S.B. No. 155, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 155, 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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