Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 474, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable the Auditor to access records in the Department of Education and Department of Health that would otherwise be confidential.

The State Auditor testified in support of this measure. The Attorney General, the Department of Education, and the Department of Health testified in opposition to this measure.

Your Committee finds this measure a necessary and reasonable means to assure the Auditor access needed to perform the Auditor's duties in an effective manner.

Your Committee has amended this measure by providing that it will sunset on June 30, 2005.

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 S.B. No. 474, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 474, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.