Bill Text: HI SB2118 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: HSAC Package; Driver's Licenses; Identification Cards; Persons with Disabilities
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-11 - The committee on TRE deferred the measure. [SB2118 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-SB2118-Introduced.html
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to persons with disabilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that some persons with disabilities want to be able to indicate their disability on their driver's license or civil identification card. Having a driver's license or civil identification card that clearly indicates a person's disability would allow the person access to certain public services such as special transportation and seating for persons with disabilities at public events, and would also be helpful in communicating special needs to police and other public safety personnel in the event of an emergency.
The purpose of this Act is to allow persons with disabilities to include the international handicap symbol and information about their disability on their driver's license or civil identification card.
SECTION 2. Chapter 286, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:
1. By adding a new section to part VI to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§286-A Driver's license for persons with disabilities. Upon application for a driver's license under this part, a person with a disability may request that the disability be identified on the person's driver's license. If the documentation regarding the person's disability as required by the examiner of drivers is received by the examiner of drivers, the driver's license shall display the international handicap symbol and information relating to the person's disability on a location designated by the examiner of drivers."
2. By adding a new section to part XVI to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§286-B Identification card for persons with disabilities. (a) Upon application for an identification card under this part, a person with a disability may request that the disability be identified on the person's identification card.
(b) If the documentation regarding the person's disability as required by the examiner of drivers is received by the examiner of drivers, the identification card for the person shall include characteristics and content pursuant to section 286-305 and display the international handicap symbol on a location designated by the examiner of drivers. On the reverse side of the identification card shall be a space within which the examiner of drivers shall enter information about the person's disability.
(c) An identification card for persons with disabilities shall be issued to a person with a temporary disability upon presentation of a sworn affidavit of at least one medical doctor attesting to the disability and estimating the duration of the disability. The identification card shall be issued for periods of six months, and a current affidavit of a medical doctor attesting to the continuance of the disability shall be presented at each request thereafter."
SECTION 3. Section 286-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding two new definitions to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Disability" means any physical, mental, or neurological impairment that severely restricts a person's mobility, manual dexterity, or ability to climb stairs; substantial loss of sight or hearing; loss of one or more limbs or use thereof; or significantly diminished reasoning capacity.
"Person with disabilities" means any person with a permanent or temporary disability."
SECTION 4. Section 286-305, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§286-305 Contents and characteristics; form. (a) Each identification card issued by the examiner of drivers shall display a distinguishing number assigned to the cardholder, and shall display the following inscription:
"STATE OF HAWAII IDENTIFICATION CARD"
(b) The examiner of drivers, after obtaining the fingerprint of the applicant as provided in this part and after obtaining the information required by or pursuant to this part, shall issue to each applicant an identification card in a form and with identifying information that the director deems necessary and appropriate, including a notation of veteran status, if desired by the applicant, on the front of the card where applicable; provided that such notation shall not include any designation other than the term "veteran". As used in this subsection, "veteran" means any person who served in any of the uniformed services of the United States and was discharged under conditions other than dishonorable.
(c) The identification card shall not display the cardholder's social security number.
(d) The identification card shall be designed to prevent its reproduction or alteration without ready detection.
(e) The identification card for individuals under twenty-one years of age shall have characteristics prescribed by the examiner distinguishing it from that issued to a individual who is twenty-one years of age or older.
(f) Persons with disabilities may request the inclusion of information about their disability on their identification card, pursuant to section 286-B. The identification card shall include the information about the disability on the back of the identification card and display the international handicap symbol on a location designated by the examiner of drivers."
SECTION 5. In codifying the new sections added by section 2 and referenced in section 4 of this Act, the revisor of statutes shall substitute appropriate section numbers for the letters used in designating the new sections in this Act.
SECTION 6. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2016.
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BY REQUEST |
Report Title:
HSAC Package; Driver's Licenses; Identification Cards; Persons with Disabilities
Description:
Authorizes the examiner of drivers to include information about a person's disability on the person's driver's license or civil identification card.
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