STAND. COM. REP. NO. 575-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2586
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 2586 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHAPTER 92F, UNIFORM
     INFORMATION PRACTICES ACT (MODIFIED),"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the time period
wherein agencies must respond to requests for personal records by
specifying that an agency has ten working days from the date of
receipt by the agency to respond to such a request.

     The Office of Information Practices testified in support of
the measure.  

     Your Committee finds that current law requires agencies to
respond within ten working days from the date of a request for an
individual's personal record.  This language has caused confusion
as a request may be dated with the date it was drafted but
received by the agency at a later date.  This measure clarifies
that requests must be responded to within ten days from the date
a request is received by the agency, thereby allowing the agency
sufficient time to respond to the request, while keeping in line
with the original intent of the public records law.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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     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
purpose of H.B. No. 2586 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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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair