Report Title:

Driver License

Description:

Removes social security number requirement for driver's license. Authorizes the submission of identifying documents.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

516

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the Social Security Administration no longer issues social security numbers for driver's license purposes. This prevents certain legal aliens from obtaining a driver's license in this State because the State requires applicants for a driver's license to provide their social security numbers.

The purpose of this Act is to delete the requirement that applicants for a driver's license provide their social security numbers and to authorize the examiner of drivers to require the submission of other documents to verify the applicant's identity.

SECTION 2. Section 286-111, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:

1. By amending subsection (a) to read:

"(a) Every application for an instruction permit or for a driver's license shall be made upon a form furnished by the examiner of drivers and shall be verified by the applicant before a person authorized to administer oaths. The examiner of drivers may require applications to be accompanied by documents determined by the examiner of drivers as verifying the identity of the applicant, but shall not require submission of a social security number. The examiner of drivers and officers serving under the examiner are hereby authorized to administer [such] oaths without charge. Each application for an instruction permit for a category (1), (2), (3), or (4) license shall be accompanied by a fee to be determined by the council of each county and each application for a driver's license shall be accompanied by the fee, unless the applicant has already paid the fee upon application for an instruction permit in the same county, in which event no fee shall be chargeable. An additional fee to be determined by the council of each county shall be charged and collected upon the issuance of a driver's license. All the foregoing fees shall become county realizations."

2. By amending subsection (c) to read:

"(c) Every application shall state the full name, date of birth, sex, occupation, [social security number,] the residence address and business address, if any, of the applicant, and shall briefly describe the applicant, and shall state whether the applicant has theretofore been licensed as a driver, and, if so, when and in what state or country, and whether any such license has ever been suspended or revoked, or whether an application has ever been refused, and if so, the date of and reason for the suspension, revocation, or refusal."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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