STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1680

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2021

 

RE:   S.B. No. 134

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 134, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY POWERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the Governor or a mayor from suspending requests for public records or vital statistics during a declared state of emergency.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the League of Women Voters of Hawaii, Common Cause Hawaii, Civil Beat Law Center for Public Interest, and one individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of Information Practices and Grassroot Institute of Hawaii.

 

     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 S.B. No. 134, S.D. 1, 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