STAND. COM. REP. NO.  698-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2537

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2537, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISCLOSURE OF RECORDS CONCERNING APPLICANTS AND RECIPIENTS OF HUMAN SERVICES AFTER AN IN CAMERA REVIEW BY THE COURT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to permit the Department of Human Services to disclose information concerning applicants and recipients pursuant to a court order after the court reviews the records in camera, upon a showing of good cause by the party seeking to have the information disclosed.

 

     The Department of Human Services supported this measure.  A concerned individual opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2537, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2537, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair