STAND. COM. REP. 968

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 427

S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred S.B. No. 427, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to expedite the public's access to government records by:

(1) Requiring agencies that maintain government records in an electronic format to make such records available in an electronic format upon payment of a reasonable fee;

(2) Authorizing agencies to provide read-only access to government records by remote electronic means; and

(3) Changing the cost of reproducing paper copies of any government record from not less than 5 cents per page to not more than 25 cents per page; provided that the document page size does not exceed eight and one-half inches by fourteen inches.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Life of the Land, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure. The Office of Information Practices (OIP) offered comments.

Your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Judiciary to carefully scrutinize OIP's suggested amendments to this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 427, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,

 

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MICHAEL Y. MAGAOAY, Chair