STAND. COM. REP. NO.285-02
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: H.B. No. 2612
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2002
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.B. No. 2612 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT PROPERTY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to allow public employers to access any of their employee's state-owned computers for any work-related reason.
The Campaign Spending Commission supported the intent of this bill. The Hawaii State Ethics Commission, Office of Information Practices, and Hawaii Government Employees Association opposed this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its contents and inserting language that limits the scope of the bill to only the Legislature. More specifically, this bill:
(1) Allows the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Senate President to access any of their employee's state-owned computers for any work-related reason, suspected misuse, or random inspection for misuse;
(2) Provides that before any such computer at the Legislature is accessed by the employer, except for normal maintenance or repair, the employer shall consult with a committee made up of a proportional number of majority and minority members from the affected house reflecting the makeup of each house; and
(3) Provides that the members on each committee shall be appointed by the employer.
Concerns were raised that chapter 84, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), may not be the most appropriate place to put this new language since this chapter pertains to the Ethics Code. Therefore, your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs may want to consider placing this language in a more appropriate chapter.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2612, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2612, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Legislative Management,
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____________________________ NATHAN SUZUKI, Chair |
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