STAND. COM. REP. NO. 725

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 996
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 996 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEETINGS OF STATE AND COUNTY
     BOARDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to maintain the confidentiality
of protected information when it is brought before a state or
county board.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from the
Department of the Attorney General and the Office of Information
Practices.

     Your Committee finds that this bill will give state and
county board members the benefit of information pertinent to
matters for which they are responsible and authorized to act,
without compromising the confidentiality conferred on such
information by a court order or statute.  It is the intent of
your Committee that this bill would only apply to the parts of
any state and county board meeting in which confidential
information is being considered in the board's deliberation and
decision, and not to the entire meeting.
 
     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and

 
 
 
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purpose of H.B. No. 996 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair