STAND. COM. REP. NO. 828
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 713
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 713, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOCIAL MEDIA,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Making the Civil Rights Commission the enforcing agency for the prohibition contained in this bill;
(2) Specifying that employers are prohibited from requiring, requesting, suggesting, or causing employees or potential employees to disclose specified information regarding their personal accounts or access their personal social media account in the presence of the employer or divulge a personal social media account;
(3) Removing the language that would have allowed law enforcement to request or require an employee or potential employee to access a personal account in the presence of the law enforcement agency employer, or to divulge any personal account;
(4) Clarifying that this measure will not be construed to conflict with federal law;
(5) Changing the effective date to January 1, 2100, to encourage further discussion; and
(6) 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. 713, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 713, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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