Report Title:

Traffic Safety; Driver Licensing

Description:

Requires drivers under the age of 21 to renew driver's license every year and, at a minimum, to undergo road testing when doing so.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2934

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

Traffic SafetY.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 286-106, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§286-106 Expiration of licenses. (a) [Every] Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), every driver's license issued under this part, whether an original issuance or a renewal, shall expire on the first birthday of the licensee occurring not less than six years after the date of the issuance of the license, unless sooner revoked or suspended[; provided that].

(b) If the licensee is less than twenty-one years of age, the license shall expire on the first birthday of the licensee occurring not less than [four years] one year after the date of issuance of the license [if the licensee is fifteen to seventeen years of age and].

(c) The license shall expire two years after the date of [the] issuance [of the license] if at that time the licensee:

(1) Is seventy-two years of age or older; or

(2) Exhibits a physical condition or conditions which the examiner of drivers reasonably believes has impaired the driver's ability to drive, unless the licensee:

(A) Obtains a certificate from a licensed physician that the licensee's physical condition or conditions do not impair the licensee's ability to drive; or

(B) Is able to correct the physical impairment, or by using a vehicle adapted to overcome the physical impairment is to the satisfaction of the examiner of drivers able to drive safely."

SECTION 2. Section 286-107, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (e) to read as follows:

"(e) No driver's license shall be renewed by the examiner of drivers unless:

(1) The examiner of drivers is satisfied of the applicant's fitness to continue to operate a motor vehicle[;] which, in the case of a licensee under the age of twenty-one, shall include, at a minimum, a test pursuant to section 286-108(a)(4);

(2) The fee required by subsection (d) is tendered together with the application for renewal; and

(3) The applicant complies with section 286-102.5."

SECTION 3. Section 286-108, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"(c) The examiner of drivers may waive the actual demonstration of ability to operate a motor vehicle for any person who is at least [eighteen] twenty-one years of age and who possesses a valid driver's license issued to the applicant in any other state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, a province of the Dominion of Canada, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for the operation of vehicles in categories 1 through 3 of section 286-102."

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

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2005.

INTRODUCED BY:

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