STAND. COM. REP. NO. 486

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 32

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 32 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIFORM ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to enact the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act.  Specifically, this measure establishes requirements and standards in the event that government agencies that are official publishers of certain publications, rules, or decisions elect to publish those publications, rules, or decisions solely in electronic form.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Judiciary, Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that state governments are increasingly publishing laws, statutes, agency rules, and court rules and decisions online.  Although electronic publication of legal material has facilitated public access to the material, it has also raised concerns regarding authentication and preservation of the electronic legal materials.  This measure requires an official publishing agency to provide a means of authenticating that the electronic contents are unaltered and preserved in electronic or print form and accessible for use by the public on a permanent basis.  The Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation clarified to your Committee that this measure does not require the electronic publication of any materials, but rather applies if one of the official publishing agencies elects to publish one of the specified legal publications solely in electronic form.

 

     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. 32 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair