Bill Text: HI SB2677 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Bill 2677 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: State Identification; Veteran Designation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-25 - (S) Referred to PGM/JDL, WAM. [SB2677 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2677-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2677
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO CIVIL IDENTIFICATION.

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that there is no federal veteran identification card program designed to include all veterans. Currently, veterans are provided with a health access card to receive veterans' medical services and a retired military identification card. A vast number of veterans have no other form of identification as a veteran.

The legislature finds that allowing veterans to obtain a state identification card that indicates their veteran status alleviates the necessity of carrying other cards to prove veteran status in order to obtain benefits provided by businesses and other organizations.

The purpose of this Act is to authorize a designation of "veteran" on a state identification card under certain conditions.

SECTION 2. Section 846-28, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) The department of the attorney general shall require, collect, secure, make, and maintain a record of the following items of information with respect to each applicant for registration:

(1) The name of the person applying to be registered (hereinafter called the "registrant" or "applicant"), the street and number or address of the applicant's place of permanent residence, and the applicant's residence and business telephone numbers, if any;

(2) The applicant's occupation and any pertinent data relating thereto;

(3) The applicant's racial extraction;

(4) The applicant's citizenship;

(5) The date and place of the applicant's birth;

(6) The applicant's personal description, including sex, height, weight, hair, eyes, complexion, build, scars, and marks;

(7) The applicant's right and left index fingerprints or, if the applicant has no right index finger or left index finger, other identifying imprint as specified by rules of the department; provided that this requirement shall not apply to minors until they reach the age of three years;

(8) The name, relationship, and address of the nearest relative or other person to be notified in case of sickness, accident, death, emergency, or need of the applicant, if such notification is desired;

(9) The social security number of the applicant; [~~and~~]

(10) A military service document issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs or the Department of Defense indicating that the applicant has served in the United States armed forces and has been honorably discharged or retired, if the applicant desires a designation of "veteran" on the certificate of identification; and

[~~(10)~~] (11) A frontal photograph of the applicant's full face."

SECTION 3. Section 846-30, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§846-30 Identification certificates; form. (a) The department of the attorney general, after taking the fingerprints of each registrant as provided in this part (except as otherwise provided in the case of children under three years of age), and after securing the information required by or pursuant to this part, shall issue to each registrant a certificate of identification in such form, and with such information, as the attorney general deems necessary and practicable[.], including a designation of veteran under subsection (b), as applicable.

(b) A certificate of identification bearing the designation of "veteran" shall be issued to any applicant who has provided the information regarding veteran status required under section 846-28."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2012.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

State Identification; Veteran Designation

Description:

Establishes a designation of "veteran" on state identification cards if the applicant indicates a verified veteran status on the application for a certificate of identification.

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