STAND. COM. REP. NO.  763-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2608

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2608, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRIVER LICENSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to facilitate international reciprocity by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Director of the Department of Transportation to establish and appoint the members of a statewide driver's license reciprocity committee to evaluate the written knowledge and practical examination program of a foreign country whenever a foreign country makes a request for driver's license reciprocity;

 

     (2)  Establishing a process to determine whether the standards of the foreign countries' driver's license testing are equivalent to Hawaii's driver's license testing; and

 

     (3)  Requiring that the Driver's License Reciprocity Committee notify the Legislature of its findings and recommendations.

 

     The Department of Transportation, the Department of Customer Services of the City and County of Honolulu, and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea supported this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2608, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair