STAND. COM. REP. NO. 751

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 553

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 553 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT (MODIFIED),"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to protect personal identifying information by:

(1) Allowing government agencies to withhold identifying information, such as home addresses and social security numbers, from government records required to be disclosed under section 92F-12(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), in cases where disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; and

(2) Providing that information in these records may also be withheld from disclosure as provided by the laws of other states or the federal government.

The Office of Information Practices testified in support of this bill. The League of Women Voters of Hawaii offered comments.

Your Committee finds that this measure will allow government agencies to withhold personal information from public government records to prevent clearly unwarranted invasions of personal privacy or in conformance with other laws protecting identifying information.

Your Committee has amended this bill by clarifying that sections 92F-13(1) and 92F-14, HRS, control the types of information that government agencies may withhold under Chapter 92F to prevent a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

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. 553, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 553, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair