STAND. COM. REP. NO.  734

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1518

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1518, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC RECORDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Establish a process for a public agency to request that the Office of Information Practices declare an individual to be a vexatious public records requestor if that person has established a clear pattern of conduct that amounts to an abuse of the process established by the Uniform Information Practices Act; and

 

(2)  Restrict that individual's rights under the Uniform Information Practices Act for no longer than two years.

 

     The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, Department of Health, and University of Hawaii supported this measure.  The Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest opposed this measure.  The Office of Information Practices and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation provided comments.


 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1518, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair