Report Title:

Forged Identification; Driver's Licenses; State ID Cards

 

Description:

Requires driver's licenses and state ID cards to electronically imprint the licensee's or cardholder's date of birth to prevent alteration.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

637

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to identification.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the date of birth on driver licenses and state identification cards are being altered to enable the presenter of the card to be of sufficient age to purchase liquor. If licenses and identification cards display the date of birth of the named individual in a form that can be read electronically by a seller of liquor, for example, alteration would not be possible and underage drinking problem could be reduced substantially.

The purpose of this Act is to require driver licenses and state identification cards to display the date of birth in a form that can be read electronically and be electronically displayed.

SECTION 2. Section 286-109, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Upon payment of the required fee and upon demonstrating the ability to operate a certain category or categories of motor vehicles to the satisfaction of the examiner of drivers, an applicant for a driver's license shall be issued a single license of a design approved by the director of transportation upon which is made a notation of:

(1) The category or categories of motor vehicles the applicant may operate;

(2) Any restrictive provisions to which the license is subject; and

(3) When the license is issued to a person under twenty-one years of age, a statement, in clearly legible print that shall contrast with the other information appearing on the license, which indicates the date on which the person will attain the age of twenty-one years.

In addition to an embossed or printed date of birth, the date of birth shall be imprinted electronically in a form that is capable of being read and displayed electronically."

SECTION 3. Section 846-30, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§846-30 Identification certificates; form. The department of the attorney general, after taking the fingerprints of each registrant as provided in this part (except as otherwise provided in the case of children under three years of age), and after securing the information required by or pursuant to this part, shall issue to each registrant a certificate of identification in such form, and with such information, as the attorney general deems necessary and practicable[.]; provided that in addition to a printed or embossed date of birth of the registrant, the date of birth shall be imprinted electronically on the certificate of identification capable of being read and displayed electronically."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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