STAND. COM. REP. 3031

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2142

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2142, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESS PRACTICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect business and trade secrets and other confidential proprietary information contained within records pertaining to tenants and prospective tenants of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority from public disclosure.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Office of Information Practices, and Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA).

Your Committee finds that currently the leasing function of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority requires tenants to provide detailed business plans to evaluate their potential for successful tenancy. Due to the nature of this business, the information obtained is proprietary, and prospective and current tenants may potentially be harmed by public disclosure of this sensitive information. Your Committee believes that this proprietary information should not be subject to disclosure, and this measure will protect this type of information from normal sunshine law provisions.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2142, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair