STAND. COM. REP. NO. 773

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 273

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 273, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION CARDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the examiner of drivers to accept a sworn statement from a victim services organization, an attorney, a member of the clergy, correctional institution staff, or a medical or health professional as documentary evidence of a homeless person's address, date and place of birth, occupation, or social security number.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Hawaii Youth Services Network, ImuAlliance, Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery, Rainbow Family 808, and twenty individuals.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the lack of legal identification is a barrier to homeless persons applying for employment or seeking benefits and services.  Allowing qualified persons to provide documentation via a sworn statement would assist homeless persons to obtain critical services, obtain employment, enroll in school, and become more self-sufficient.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing place of birth, occupation, and social security number from the list of items of which the examiner of drivers may accept a sworn statement as documentary evidence, for the purpose of complying with the requirements of the Real ID Act of 2005; and

 

     (2)  Inserting an effective date of January 7, 2059, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 273, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 273, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair