Report Title:

Driver's License

Description:

Requires a driver's license to indicate whether the person is a convicted sex offender.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1459

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO DRIVER'S LICENSING.

 

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

SECTION 1. 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] that indicates the date on which the person will attain the age of twenty-one years[.]; and

(4) When the license is issued to a person who is registered as a sex offender under chapter 846E, a code that indicates that the person is a registrant under that chapter; provided that no such code shall appear on the license more than ten years after the later of the date the person was released from incarceration or the date the person was placed on probation."

SECTION 2. Section 286-111, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(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. The application also shall state whether the applicant is a registered sex offender under chapter 846E, and, if so, the date the applicant was released from incarceration or placed on probation."

SECTION 3. Section 846E-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Registration information shall be disclosed as follows:

(1) The information shall be disclosed to law enforcement agencies for law enforcement purposes;

(2) The information shall be disclosed to government agencies conducting confidential background checks[;] and to the examiner of drivers in issuing driver's licenses;

(3) The attorney general and any county police department shall release relevant information that is necessary to protect the public concerning a specific person required to register under this chapter; provided that the identity of a victim of an offense that requires registration under this chapter shall not be released."

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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